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According to the judiciary, Iran hanged a man convicted of injuring a member of a paramilitary group. This was the first execution known to have taken place in Iran during the nearly three months of protests.
The judiciary’s Mizan Online website said, “Mohsen Shekari, a rioter who blocked Sattar Khan Street in Tehran on September 25 and wounded one of the security guards with a machete, was executed this morning.”
Since Amini passed away following her imprisonment by Tehran’s notorious morality police for allegedly breaking the nation’s strict hijab clothing rule, protests have erupted across Iran for over three months.
The protests, which the government has battled to quell, are referred to by the authorities as “riots” that were instigated by Israel and Britain as well as Iran’s principal enemy, the United States, and its allies.
The court found him guilty of “moharebeh” (waging “war against God” per Iranian Islamic law) on November 1. He appealed the decision, but the Supreme Court affirmed it on November 20.
Associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Basij is a state-approved volunteer force.
Five people were given execution by hanging by an Iranian court on Tuesday for the murder of a Basij member.
With this judgment, there are now 11 people in Iran who have been given death sentences because of the protests, in what Amnesty International has called fake trials.
