DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran said it executed two men Saturday convicted of allegedly killing a paramilitary volunteer during an illustration, the most recent executions geared toward halting the nationwide protests now difficult the country’s theocracy.
Iran’s judiciary identified those executed as Mohammad Karami and Mohammad Hosseini, making it 4 men known to have been executed because the demonstrations began in September over the death of Mahsa Amini.
The judiciary’s Mizan news agency said the boys had been convicted of killing Ruhollah Ajamian, a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s volunteer Basij Force, in town of Karaj outside of Tehran on Nov. 3. The Basij have deployed in major cities, attacking and detaining protesters, who in lots of cases have fought back.
It wasn’t immediately clear which court heard the 2 men’s cases. Nonetheless, Iran’s internationally criticized closed-door Revolutionary Courts have handed down two of the death sentences.
Activists say at the least 16 people have been sentenced to death in closed-door hearings over charges linked to the protests. Death sentences in Iran are typically carried out by hanging.
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A minimum of 517 protesters have been killed and over 19,200 people have been arrested, in accordance with Human Rights Activists in Iran, a gaggle that has closely monitored the unrest. Iranian authorities haven’t provided an official count of those killed or detained.
The protests began in mid-September, when 22-year-old Amini died after being arrested by Iran’s morality police for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code. Women have played a number one role within the protests, with many publicly stripping off the compulsory Islamic headscarf, often known as the hijab.
The protests mark one in every of the largest challenges to Iran’s theocracy because the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Security forces have used live ammunition, bird shot, tear gas and batons to disperse protesters, in accordance with rights groups.
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