At least 24 people detained in Iran face execution for their part in anti-government protests that have spread across the country as demonstrators demand women’s rights.
Iran’s daily Etemad reportedly published a list compiled by judicial authorities on Friday accusing 25 protesters of “waging war against God,” a charge 23-year-old Mohsen Shekari was found guilty of before being hanged. Thursday.
Shekari’s name was also on the list.
FILE – In this photo taken by a non-employee of The Associated Press and obtained by AP outside Iran, Iranians protest the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by morality police in Tehran, October 1. , 2022.
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IRAN EXECUTES FIRST PROTESTER SINCE NATIONWIDE DEMONSTRATIONS FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS BEGAN
Authorities have indicated that more executions will take place, local media reported.
The UN condemned the execution of the 23-year-old and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said it was “clearly designed to send a chilling effect to the rest of the protesters”.
“We will follow up with the authorities on this as well,” he said.
“I can only… call on the authorities to immediately institute a moratorium on the death penalty, to release those who were arrested in connection with the protests and to work for the abolition of the death penalty,” he added.
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. Iran has hanged Mohsen Shekarimer after he was found guilty of wounding a member of paramilitary forces, the judiciary said, the first known execution it has carried out in nearly three months of protests.
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Thousands have taken to the streets of Iran for months following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was killed while in police custody in September.
Amini’s death drew world attention after Iran’s morality police arrested and beat her for wearing her hijab improperly before succumbing to her injuries.
Since then, the women have shed their hijabs and cut their hair short in a show of protest at the oppressive practices of the Khamenei regime.
Tehran has aggressively cracked down on protesters and more than 18,000 people have been arrested for protesting, according to some reports.
The Iran Journal reported this week that some women have been threatened with sexual violence after being arrested and interrogated by Iranian security forces.
Iranians protest the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, after she was detained by the moral police, in Tehran, on September 20, 2022.
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Others have disappeared or have been found dead after their arrest.
At least 481 protesters have been killed according to the activist news agency HRANA as of Friday, though the demonstrations continue.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
