Iranian authorities on Thursday executed Mohsen Shekhri, 23, for allegedly stabbing a pro-government militia officer, marking the first execution in cases related to recent anti-hijab and anti-establishment protests.
This is the first execution of a protester that has been confirmed by Iranian officials.
Iranian activists claim that many protesters have already been killed or are facing torture at the hands of Iranian police.
So far 21 protesters are likely to be given the death penalty.
According to a report, the number of protesters who died during the protests has reached 451. npr From 28 November.
The protest was held by a large section of Iranian women, belonging to all age groups, from teenagers to the elderly, who were fed up with Iran’s now-disbanded morality police, who sexually assaulted a young woman, Mahsa Amini. Was killed for wearing the manner. headscarf or hijab in september
Wearing the hijab is compulsory for all women in Iran.
Authorities claimed that Shekhri also blocked traffic on 25 September and stabbed a member of the pro-regime Basij militia, injuring him in the process. Guardian informed of.
Officials claim that Shekhri confessed that he was bribed to kill a police officer. The court found that Shekhri had used the hammer with the intention to kill, terrorize and disturb the security.
Guardian The report said Shekhri had been convicted of “mohrebeh” – or “waging war against God” under Iran’s Islamic Sharia law.
He was not represented by his lawyers and his family remained outside the jail where he was killed.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) praised the stand of the judiciary and asked judges to act swiftly on other pending cases.
News of the death sentence for Shekhri and other protesters was met with fear as the youth protesters did not respond to outreach measures by senior politicians.
Guardian Its report said Tehran’s mayor and other senior officials went to the Tehran University campus on the annual Students’ Day this week in an attempt to start talks with them, but when the students demanded the other fellow students be released.
Iran’s president, Ibrahim Raisi, doubled down on the foreign interference angle and accused the US of plotting to destroy the Iranian government. Addressing an almost entirely male audience at the University of Tehran, he said the protests were not due to economic or cultural grievances.
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