2024-01-23 19:08:56
A new execution was carried out by the Iranian authorities following the massive protests generated following the death of the young Mahsa Amini at the hands of the “morality police” for wearing the veil incorrectly on September 16, 2022.
According to Agencia EFE, this is Mohamed Ghobadlou, who was executed following being sentenced to death for the alleged murder of a police officer during the marches.
In this way, the number of protesters who have been hanged for alleged crimes linked to the protests reaches eight.
The Mizan agency, belonging to the Iranian Judiciary, reported that Ghobadlou was executed on Tuesday morning “following 487 days of judicial processes.”
In turn, the organization stated that Ghobadlou ran over a group of police officers in September 2022, causing the death of one of them and injuring five others in Appearinga city located in the central district of Robat Karim county, Tehran province.
While, International Amnesty reported that the young man suffered “long-term mental disability”accusing that he was convicted in “a farce of a trial, marked by confessions obtained through torture.”
In a video released by the Iranian agency IRNA, Ghobadlou supposedly acknowledged having run over police officers.
Although he had been sentenced to two death sentences for “corruption on earth” At the end of 2023, the Iranian Supreme Court had stopped the sentence to review his mental state.
However, the courts finally ruled out that he had mental problems, so he went ahead with his execution.
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“The execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou is a deliberate act of murder and a crime. In the face of murder, silence is betrayal.”published the Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, who is imprisoned for defending women’s rights in the country.
On Monday, December 12, 2022, Iran executed another of those detained for alleged crimes committed in the context of the protests, an execution that was carried out in public.
Majid Reza Rahnavard was hanged in the holy city of Mashad, northeastern Iran, following being sentenced to death for the murder of two security officers.
The young man was arrested on November 19 of that year, charged on the 24th, and his trial was held on the 29th, the same day he was sentenced to death, following supposedly confessing to his crimes, according to Mizan.
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