For the first time, the death penalty has been imposed on a person detained during demonstrations in Iran.

Iranian Trial Court docket underneath the Judiciary Information His company introduced {that a} demonstrator named Muhsin Shikari, who was sentenced to dying by the Revolutionary Court docket in October for “threatening residents with a chilly weapon and injuring a safety guard throughout protests on Settar Khan Avenue,” within the capital Tehran, was executed this morning. This led to feedback that this example would improve the violence of the demonstrations.
The article states that the executed particular person was sentenced to dying on 20 November on expenses of “carrying firearms, blocking the street, stopping automobiles, violating safety, combating with militia forces (Besic), injuring a safety guard, waging battle towards the state”. It was famous that he was convicted and his sentence was later upheld by the Supreme Court docket.
In reference to the demonstrations which have been occurring for about 3 months within the nation, 11 folks have been sentenced to dying to this point. Dying sentences issued by the Revolutionary Courts have to be upheld by the Supreme Court docket. Head of the Judiciary Gulam Hussein Muhsini Ejei acknowledged on December 6 that the sentences of a number of the folks sentenced to dying have been authorized and they are going to be executed quickly.
Iranian Chief Prosecutor Mohammed Cafer Muntazeri mentioned that whereas the “Obligatory scarf” protests that began after Mahsa Amini’s dying within the nation continued, in addition they began engaged on the scarf challenge. Stating that the Iranian Meeting and the Supreme Council of the Revolution are engaged on a authorized regulation on the scarf and that the end result can be introduced quickly, Montazeri mentioned, “We are going to decide by adhering to the structure. The work can be concluded inside 15 days.”