An Iranian revolutionary court has sentenced a prisoner accused of participating in the protests that are shaking Iran, in the second sentence to the maximum sentence for the mobilizations in which more freedom is demanded.
The defendant was sentenced in Tehran for “attack a person with a knife, set fire to a motorcycle and declare war against the state”reported the Mizan news agency, from the Judiciary.
The sentence can be appealed in higher courts, Mizan specified.
Last Sunday, the Iranian Justice handed down the first death sentence against a person accused of participating in the protests unleashed by the death of Masha Amini, after being arrested three days earlier by the Morality Police for wearing the Islamic veil wrong.
At least five other people have been sentenced to prison terms for their participation in the protests.
In addition, the judicial authorities have accused more than 2,000 people of various crimes for their participation in the mobilizations, in which the end of the Islamic Republic is called for, many of which face death sentences.
The mobilizations intensified yesterday with demonstrations and strikes to commemorate the 2019 protests caused by the rise in fuel and in which 300 people died, according to Amnesty International.
In some parts of several cities, shops were closed, while in multitudes of universities throughout the country, slogans such as “woman, life, freedom” or “death to the dictator” were again shouted, referring to the supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei
The protests are carried out mainly by young people and women shouting “woman, life, freedom”, they launch slogans against the Government and burn veils, one of the symbols of the Islamic Republic and something unthinkable not long ago.
At least 326, including 43 minorshave died in the police crackdown, according to the Oslo-based NGO Iran Human Rights.
Complaint by Iran Human Rights
The NGO Iran Human Rights, based in Oslo, Norway, warned on Monday against the risk of rapid executions in this Asian country after the Iranian Justice announced the first death sentence for the protests in the last two months.
The official news agency IRNA does not identify the convicted person, and indicates that the sentence has been handed down in relation to the charges of “burning down a government building, disturbing public order, gathering and conspiring to commit a crime against national security, and being an enemy of God and of corruption on earth”, this last crime punishable by execution.
“The international community must strongly warn the Republic of Iran of the consequences of executing protesters. Calling their ambassadors and implementing more effective human rights measures against officials are some consequences to consider,” this organization said in a statement.
Some of the detainees are released with a fine. Others are tried in criminal court. But political prisoners often face these feared revolutionary courts, a parallel system created to protect the Islamic republicsaid to T.I have Washington Post Hadi Enayat, a political sociologist specializing in Iranian law.
The revolutionary courts are notorious for their “egregious violations of due process guarantees”, he said Tara Sepehri Far of Human Rights Watch. The State “uses the trials as one more element to shape its narrative about the protests.”
(with information from EFE)
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