{"id":183771,"date":"2022-12-13T12:59:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T09:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=183771"},"modified":"2022-12-13T12:59:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T09:59:18","slug":"iran-carries-out-second-execution-over-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/iran-carries-out-second-execution-over-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran carries out second execution over protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iran says it has publicly hanged a 23-year-old in what is the second execution linked to the recent anti-government protests.<\/p>\n

Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, was hanged early on Monday in the city of Mashhad, the judiciary said.<\/p>\n

A court convicted him of “enmity against God” after finding he had stabbed to death two members of the paramilitary Basij Resistance Force.<\/p>\n

Rahnavard was hanged just 23 days after his arrest.<\/p>\n

Human rights groups have warned that protesters are being sentenced to death after sham trials with no due process.<\/p>\n

His mother was not told of the execution until after his death.<\/p>\n

His family were then given the name of a cemetery and a plot number. When they turned up, security agents were burying his body.<\/p>\n

Opposition activist collective 1500tasvir tweeted that the family were telephoned by an official at 07:00 local time and told: “We have killed your son and buried his body in Behesht-e Reza cemetery.”<\/p>\n

The judiciary’s Mizan news agency said Rahnavard was hanged “in the presence of a group of Mashhadi citizens” and posted several pre-dawn photographs reportedly showing the execution.<\/p>\n

In the images a man could be seen hanging from the cable in front of onlookers – it is not clear how many people attended the execution, or who they were.<\/p>\n

Rahnavard was denied a lawyer of his choice for his trial. The lawyer he was given did not put up a defence.<\/p>\n

Mizan had previously reported that he was accused of stabbing to death two members of the Basij on a street in Mashhad on 17 November. The Basij is a volunteer force often deployed by Iranian authorities to suppress dissent.<\/p>\n

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of Norway-based Iran Human Rights, said on Twitter that Rahnavard’s sentencing was based on “coerced confessions, after a grossly unfair process and a show trial”.<\/p>\n

“This crime must be met with serious consequences for the Islamic Republic,” he said, adding that there was a “serious risk of mass execution of protesters”.<\/p>\n

The women-led protests against Iran’s clerical establishment were sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who was detained by morality police on 13 September for allegedly wearing her hijab, or headscarf, “improperly”.<\/p>\n

They have spread to 161 cities in all 31 provinces and are seen as one of the most serious challenges to the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution.<\/p>\n

Iran’s leaders have portrayed the protests as “riots” instigated by the country’s foreign enemies. However, the overwhelming majority of protesters have been unarmed and peaceful.<\/p>\n

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Iran says it has publicly hanged a 23-year-old in what is the second execution linked to the recent anti-government protests. Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, was hanged early on Monday in the city of Mashhad, the judiciary said. A court convicted him of “enmity against God” after finding he had stabbed to death two members of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183771"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183776,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183771\/revisions\/183776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}