Protests in Iran spread to more than 100 Iranian cities
Protests continue to grow after the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old girl who was arrested and allegedly beaten to death by police for violating strict laws requiring women to cover their hair. (Credit: MEK)
Tehran, Iran, on Thursday carried out what appeared to be the first execution of an Iranian man arrested after protesting against the regime in support of women’s rights.
Mohsen Shekari, 23, was hanged on Thursday morning after being found guilty by a Revolutionary Court of “enmity against God”.
An Iranian media outlet known as Mizan, which is linked to Tehran’s judicial system, said the 23-year-old was charged with wielding a machete, injuring a police officer and blocking access to a street in Tehran on 25 September. September with the “intent to kill”. and create terror and deprive people of liberty and security.”
A person in the Cypriot capital Nicosia checks a mobile phone on December 8, 2022 and displays a tweet about the hanging of Mohsen Shekari by Iranian authorities.
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His fellow activists claimed that he was convicted after a “show trial” lacking due process.
Shekari reportedly claimed that a friend encouraged him to attend the protest and attack a police officer.
Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Iran in recent months to protest Khamenei’s oppressive regime and demand women’s rights after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was killed while in police custody in September.
Amini was fatally beaten by Iran’s morality police and arrested for not wearing her hijab properly.
Since then, women have begun ditching their hijabs and cutting their hair in anti-government protests.
Tehran has aggressively cracked down on protesters and, according to some reports, more than 18,000 people have been arrested for protesting.
A hanging noose and red flower installation in Whitehall in London on August 28, 2021, drawing attention to the 1988 Massacre of political prisoners in Iran.
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The Iran Journal reported this week that some women have been threatened with sexual violence after being arrested and interrogated by Iranian security forces.
Others have disappeared or have been found dead after their arrest.
It is unclear how many of the protesters have been sentenced after protesting government reform, although according to the non-governmental organization Iran Human Rights, at least 20 have been sentenced to death as of last month, Reuters reported.
As of Thursday, 475 protesters have been killed according to the activist news agency HRANA.
Iran has long been criticized for its use of hangings against political dissidents and criminals alike.
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Majid Kavousifar and Hossein Kavousifar, his nephew, hang from the wire of a crane in Tehran on August 2, 2007.
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Western officials have condemned Tehran’s brutal crackdown and State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters Tuesday that “the world is watching.”
“These sentences, we know, are designed to intimidate people, to suppress dissent,” he added. “They just underscore the fears of Iran’s leaders for their own people and the fact that the government of Iran fears the truth.”
