The Iran‘s theocratic regime qualified as “proportionate” and “measured” its police and judicial response to the protests that are shaking the country, after the execution of the first protester for participating in the mobilizations triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody in mid-September.
“Iran has employed methods proportionate and common riot”, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Twitter.
“The same is true about the judicial process: measured and proportionate”, assured the Foreign Ministry.
At the same time, he defended the actions of the security and judicial forces in the name of security.
“Public safety is a red line. Assault and vandalism are not tolerable,” the Foreign Ministry remarked.
The statements by the Iranian authorities came after an avalanche of international criticism over the execution yesterday morning of Mohsen Shekariin the first hanging of a protester sentenced to death.
Shekari, 23, was sentenced to the maximum sentence for injuring a basiji -Islamic militant- with a knife and blocking a street in Tehran during protests sparked by Amini’s death.
The European Union condemned “in the strongest possible terms” the execution and urged Tehran to refrain from applying the death penalty.
“It is imperative that the Iranian authorities respect the right to due process of accused persons and ensure that people who are under any form of detention or imprisonment are not subjected to any kind of ill-treatment”, said the spokesman for the European External Action Service (EEAS), Peter Stano.
For his part, Italy expressed his “indignation” for the execution of Mohsen Shekari and said that the international community cannot remain “indifferent”.
“The Italian government is outraged by the death sentence of Moshen Shekari, a young man who had joined the demonstrations for freedom in Iran,” said the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloniin a statement released last night.
The president added that “this unacceptable repression of the Iranian authorities cannot leave the international community indifferent, nor can it stop the demand for life and freedom of Iranian women and youth”.
While human rights experts from United Nations They also condemned the execution carried out “after illegitimate trials, they constitute a act of arbitrary deprivation of life”, denounced the 13 UN experts in a joint statement.
Without making direct reference to those condemnations, Iran claimed that “Western regimes” are engaged in giving “hypocritical sermons” and they should “stop harboring, supporting and fomenting terrorists”, once again accusing the West of being behind the protests.
The riots began with the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish girl after being detained by the morality police for not wearing the veil correctly, but they have evolved and now the protesters ask for the end of the Islamic Republic founded by Ayatollah Ruholá Khomeini in 1979.
The judicial authorities have sentenced to death eleven people until now for his participation in the mobilizations and to an indeterminate number of prison sentences.
Amnesty International has denounced that at least 28 of the 2,000 defendants for the protests face death sentences.
In the almost three months of protests, more than 400 people and at least 15,000 have been detained, according to the Oslo-based NGO Iran Human Rights.
(With information from EFE)
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