Dec. 12 (UPI) — Iran publicly executed Majidreza Rahnavard on Monday, marking the second execution it has carried out in lower than every week in reference to anti-regime protests which have engulfed the nation since September.
The judiciary’s Mizan information group reported that Rahnavard was publicly hanged Monday morning within the northeastern Iranian metropolis Mashhad on costs of killing two members of Iran’s safety forces and injuring 4 others final month amid the nationwide protests.
His execution comes days after the Islamist regime hanged Mohsen Shekari who was discovered responsible of “enmity in opposition to God” for injuring a member of the paramilitary with a machete whereas blocking a highway as a part of demonstrations.
Iran has been subsumed by anti-regime protests since mid-September when 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian girl Mahsa Amini was killed in police custody after being arrested for violating the nation’s draconian hijab legal guidelines.
Just like the authorized course of Shekari was subjected to, Rahnavard’s costs and trial have been contested by human rights organizations and advocates who accuse Iran of convicting the boys in unfair trials throughout which they had been denied the rights to entry attorneys of their selecting, presumed innocence, stay silent or a good and public listening to.
Following Shekari’s execution, Amnesty Worldwide mentioned 12 protesters, together with Rahnavard, have been sentenced to dying and one other six had been on trial or have been charged with crimes that carry the dying penalty.
The human rights group accuses Iran of utilizing the dying penalty “as a software of political repression to instill worry among the many public and finish the favored rebellion.”
Human Rights Watch accused Iran of torturing detainees into confession throughout rushed trial proceedings that bypass safeguards in Iran’s penal code and legal process legislation.
“The trials of those that are dealing with capital costs associated to protests have been a complete travesty of justice,” Tara Sepehri Far, senior Iran researcher at Human Rights Watch, mentioned in a press release.
Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of the Oslo-based Iran Human Rights group, mentioned Monday’s execution of Rahnavard occurring solely 23 days after his arrest shouldn’t be solely a severe crime dedicated by the regime of Iran’s non secular chief Ali Khamenei however “a major escalation of the extent of violence in opposition to protesters.”
“Rahnavard was sentenced to dying based mostly on coerced confessions, after a grossly unfair course of and a present trial,” Amiry-Moghaddam tweeted Monday. “This crime should be met with severe penalties for the Islamic Republic.
“1000’s of detained protesters, and a dozen dying sentences already issued. There’s a severe danger of mass execution of protesters,” he warned, whereas calling on the worldwide group to make use of “a robust response as to discourage the I.R. leaders from extra executions.”
U.S. Division of State spokesman Ned Worth condemned Rahnavard’s authorized course of, and people different protesters have been subjected to, as “sham trials” and the cruel sentences that comply with as makes an attempt to intimidate the Iranian folks.
“They’re meant to suppress dissent,” he instructed reporters throughout a press convention Monday in Washington, D.C. “They usually merely simply underscore how a lot Iran’s management really fears its personal folks.”
“As Iran’s management continues its violent crackdown on peaceable protesters, they need to know that the US is watching, however extra importantly the world is watching, and we’ll proceed to coordinate with our allies and companions around the globe to confront Iran’s human rights abuses.”
The US and its allies have repeatedly sanctioned Iran for the reason that protests started. On Monday, the European Union introduced 20 Iranian officers, together with broadcasters in addition to these within the navy and authorities for his or her roles in repressing protests. The Islamist Republic of Iran Broadcasting was additionally hit by the punitive measures.
“That is in view of their position within the violent response to the latest demonstrations in Iran following the dying of Mahsa Amini,” the European Council mentioned in a press release.
In line with Iran Human Rights, a minimum of 458 folks, together with 63 minors, have been killed in Iran protesting the Islamic Republic since September.