Iran executed this friday to three prisoners sentenced to death for the murder of three members of the security forces in November during the protests triggered by the death of Mahsa Aminiwhich raises to seven the number of protesters hanged.
Saleh Mirhashmi, Majid Kazemi and Saeed Yaqoubi were executed this morning in the city of Isfahanin the center of the country, for the death of a policeman and two members of the Basiji Islamic militia, reported Mizan, an agency of the Judiciary.
The three prisoners had been sentenced to death on the charge of “enmity with God” (moharebeh) in a trial that lasted four days and in which they used forced confessionsdenounced Amnesty International (AI).
Kazemi claimed in a recorded phone conversation with his girlfriend that he had been forced to confess to the crimes of which he was accused after the interrogators will torture him, repeatedly simulate his execution and threatened to kill his brother.
The death sentence was confirmed by the Supreme Court on May 10 and last Wednesday the families were allowed to say their last goodbyes to the prisoners.
In recent days there have been calls by activists and human rights groups to stop the executions, and there have even been small nightly protests in front of the Isfahan prison where they were held, without success.
With Mirhashmi’s hangings, Kazemi and Yaqoubi are already seven people have been executed for alleged crimes related to the protests unleashed by the death of Amini, in mid-September.
Her death in police custody after being arrested by not wearing the islamic veil properly caused the largest protests against the Islamic Republic and theocratic system of the country in decades.
The protests have disappeared after a strong state repression that has caused some 500 dead and thousands of arrests.
Of all the forms of protest and disobedience, the only one that survives now is the rejection of the veil by many women despite the authorities’ attempts to reinstate the use of this garment.
High number of executions
Iran is the world’s leading country in the application of the death penalty, with 576 executions carried out in 2022a substantial increase from 314 a year earlier, according to AI.
So far in 2023, the Persian country has executed more than 200 people, most of them for crimes related to the drug trafficking and possession.
The UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker Turkestimated that every week a dozen people are executed in the country.
(With information from EFE)
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Source-www.infobae.com