A court in Iran sentenced five protesters to death. Agency reports IRNA.
According to the investigation, 16 people were charged in the murder of a deputy chief of police in the city of Karaj. Five people were sentenced to death. Eleven people, three of whom were minors, were sentenced to longer prison terms (up to 25 years).
The agency notes that the sentences can be appealed in the country’s Supreme Court.
Earlier, Iran’s Interior Ministry said at least 200 people were victims of unrest in the country. At least 320 people died, according to human rights activists.
Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi amid ongoing protests in the country accepted Possibility to amend some articles of the constitution of the Islamic Republic adopted in 1979. Iranian officials removed After more than two months of protests that began after the death of Mahsa Amini, who was detained for wearing the wrong headscarf, the country’s morality police took action.