2024-01-23 14:13:00
During the nationwide protests following the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran in 2022, the regime imprisoned many people and sentenced some to death. Now another protester has been executed. He is said to have run over a police officer.
Iran has carried out another death sentence in connection with the protests following the death of Mahsa Jina Amini in autumn 2022. The International Society for Human Rights (IGHR) reported that 24-year-old Mohammad Ghobadlou was executed.
Ghobadlou was mentally ill and was tortured in custody, his lawyer said. He was convicted of “corruption on earth” and of killing a police officer. He was one of the first Iranians arrested during the nationwide protests following Amini’s death.
Execution was initially suspended
Iran’s Supreme Court granted a stay of Ghobadlu’s execution in February 2023 and referred the case to another court. On Tuesday, the court finally approved the death penalty. The death sentence against Ghobadlou was “executed this morning after a legal process that lasted 487 days,” the Iranian judicial authority said on its Misan Online website.
The death of Mahsa Jina Amini sparked international protests. The young woman died in police custody in September 2022; she is said to have violated the requirement to wear a headscarf. According to human rights activists, around 500 people were killed in the crackdown on protests over Amini’s death. Ghobadlou’s execution was the eighth since the beginning of the year in connection with the protests.
Opaque procedures and torture
According to authorities, Kurdish man Farhad Salimi was also executed on Tuesday. According to the ISHR, he had previously been imprisoned for 14 years. Salimi was no longer allowed to see his family before the death penalty was carried out. According to the ISHR, several more Kurdish prisoners are at risk of execution.
After China, Iran is the country with the most executions per year in the world. Human rights organizations such as Amnesty International criticize, among other things, opaque procedures and confessions often obtained through torture, which lead to the death penalty.
Uwe Lueb, ARD Istanbul, tagesschau, January 23, 2024 3:41 p.m
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