Iranian officials announced on Thursday first to apply a prisoner sentenced to death for participating in protests The event that has shaken the country since mid-September.
Mohsen Shekari was executed early this morning after being sentenced to death on November 29 for wounding a basiji, an Islamist militant, with a knife, blocking a street and creating terror in Tehran, Mizan agency reported. All these crimes require condemnation of “war against god”punishable by the death penalty, as in this case. Mizan stated that the executed suspect admitted that he received “money” for attacking the law enforcement officers at the hearing and therefore stabbed the militia, who needed 13 stitches after the attack.
Shekari became the first protester executed for participating in protests that have shaken Iran since Mahsa Amini was killed in mid-September after she was arrested by the Morale Police for improperly wearing a hijab. The uprisings that started with the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish girl have evolved and are now Protesters demand the end of the Islamic Republic It was founded in 1979 by Ayatollah Ruholá Khomeini.
The judicial authorities have so far sentenced 11 people to death and an unknown number of people in prison for their participation in the demonstrations. Amnesty International has condemned that at least 28 of the 2,000 defendants for the protests face the death penalty.
According to the Oslo-based Iranian Human Rights NGO, more than 400 people were killed and at least 15,000 detained in the protests that lasted for nearly three months.