Two Iranian teenagers sentenced to death for protests

two teenagers Iranians They were sentenced to death by hanging for their participation in the protests that have shaken the Islamic Republic for months, a human rights organization denounced on Monday.

Two 23-year-old men have already been executed by the protests triggered by the death from Mahsa Aminia 22-year-old Kurdish girl who died in September after being detained by morality police for breaking the country’s strict dress code.

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NGOs fear dozens more are at risk of hanging because the authorities use capital punishment as a scare tactic to try to quell the protests.

Mehdi Mohammedifard, an 18-year-old protester, was sentenced to death accused of burning down a traffic police kiosk in the western city of Nowshahr, in Mazandaran province, Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR) reported.

condemnation to death was handed down by a revolutionary court in Sari, the provincial capital, after convicting him of charges of “corruption on earth” Y “enmity against God”the organization said.

The double sentence means that you have been imposed two penalties of death.

On the other hand, the news agency of the judiciary, Mizan Online, affirmed that the supreme court had confirmed in December the death sentence of another protester, Mohammad Boroghani, accused of “enmity with God”.

Islamic regime sentences 18 year old protester Mehdi Mohammadifard to double death sentences (seriously) after kidnapping him. The charge were corruption on earth and Muharaba (waging war against God.)#IranRevolution #mahsaaamini pic.twitter.com/WC2hc8lFno

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Boroghani would have “injured a security guard with a knife with the intention of killing him”, “sowed terror among the citizens” and “burned down the seat of the governorate in the city of Pakdasht”, southeast of Tehran. According to IHR he is 19 years old.

The NGO said last week that at least 100 protesters are at risk of execution after being doomed a death or accused of crimes punishable by capital punishment.

The first hangings sparked an international outcry and human rights groups are calling for more pressure on Iran to prevent further executions.

Source: Elcomercio

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