Iran executes 2 men arrested during protests
At least nine other protesters remain on death row, charged with crimes ranging from setting fire to a trash can to killing security forces .
Iran on Saturday hanged two men, a 22-year-old national karate champion and a 39-year-old poultry worker, who participated in anti-government protests and whose the executions were condemned as a ploy by the government to use violence and instill fear to crush protests.
Men, Mohammad Mehdi Karami, the karate champion , and Sayed Mohammad Hosseini, the factory worker, were hanged at dawn on Saturday in the town of Karaj near the capital, Tehran, after hasty trials for taking part in the murder of a member of the group paramilitary Basij in November, according to justice.
Iran has deployed a violent This brutal assault on protesters since mid-September, when the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of vice police sparked a nationwide uprising to demand an end to theocratic rule in Iran. Rights groups say at least 500 people have been killed by security forces, including 50 children, and the United Nations says at least 14,000 have been arrested.
At least 13 of Amnesty International's detained protesters have been sentenced to death, including a doctor, a bodybuilding champion, a rapper and a barber. Two men were executed in December, one of them was hanged in public from a crane with a bag over his head.
The men were denied lawyers of their choice and were represented by named lawyers by the government, according to Mr. Karami's family and rights groups. Both men had denied the allegations against them.
The executions shocked Iranians who had campaigned and protested against the execution of protesters and were widely condemned by the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
"Appalled by the regime's execution of two more young Iranians after sham trials," said Robert Malley, the US special envoy for Iran, in a tweet. “These executions must stop. We and others around the world will continue to hold Iranian leaders accountable. ”
Four protesters have now been executed and at least 15 others are at risk of being sentenced to death because they have been charged with capital offences, authorities have said. advocacy groups. his reign,” said Hadi Ghaemi, director of the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran.
On Thursday, Iran arrested Mehdi Beik, the...
At least nine other protesters remain on death row, charged with crimes ranging from setting fire to a trash can to killing security forces .
Iran on Saturday hanged two men, a 22-year-old national karate champion and a 39-year-old poultry worker, who participated in anti-government protests and whose the executions were condemned as a ploy by the government to use violence and instill fear to crush protests.
Men, Mohammad Mehdi Karami, the karate champion , and Sayed Mohammad Hosseini, the factory worker, were hanged at dawn on Saturday in the town of Karaj near the capital, Tehran, after hasty trials for taking part in the murder of a member of the group paramilitary Basij in November, according to justice.
Iran has deployed a violent This brutal assault on protesters since mid-September, when the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of vice police sparked a nationwide uprising to demand an end to theocratic rule in Iran. Rights groups say at least 500 people have been killed by security forces, including 50 children, and the United Nations says at least 14,000 have been arrested.
At least 13 of Amnesty International's detained protesters have been sentenced to death, including a doctor, a bodybuilding champion, a rapper and a barber. Two men were executed in December, one of them was hanged in public from a crane with a bag over his head.
The men were denied lawyers of their choice and were represented by named lawyers by the government, according to Mr. Karami's family and rights groups. Both men had denied the allegations against them.
The executions shocked Iranians who had campaigned and protested against the execution of protesters and were widely condemned by the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
"Appalled by the regime's execution of two more young Iranians after sham trials," said Robert Malley, the US special envoy for Iran, in a tweet. “These executions must stop. We and others around the world will continue to hold Iranian leaders accountable. ”
Four protesters have now been executed and at least 15 others are at risk of being sentenced to death because they have been charged with capital offences, authorities have said. advocacy groups. his reign,” said Hadi Ghaemi, director of the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran.
On Thursday, Iran arrested Mehdi Beik, the...
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