At least 26 individuals in Iran are at ‘great risk’ of execution in connection to the months-long across the country demonstrations.
Amnesty International released a letter sent out to Iran’s chief of justice Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei on Friday requiring an end to the killings.
The human rights guard dog stated 11 individuals have actually been sentenced to death while another 15 have actually been charged with comparable criminal offenses that might end in execution.
Two guys have actually been openly eliminated for their participation in the uprising that has actually entered its 4th successive month.
Though with households under pressure to remain quiet about the arrests, rights groups alert the figure is most likely even greater.
Iran Human Rights, an Oslo- based group, puts the number at 39.
Amnesty composed: ‘The 26 individuals have all been denied fair trials, including the rights to adequate defence and access to lawyers of their choosing; to be presumed innocent; to remain silent; and to receive a fair, public hearing.’
Majid Reza Rahnavard, a 23- year-old fruit store employee, was hanged Monday.
He was charged with eliminating 2 plainclothes Basij militia, a wing of the nation’s most effective military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Four days previously, coffee bar employee Mohsen Shekari, 23, was performed at a jail on claims he obstructed a Tehran roadway and stabbed a Basij officer.
Amnesty International formerly stated a minimum of 11 other protesters, numerous likewise in their early 20 s, have actually been performed.
Those who deal with comparable fates are being tried out capital offenses– which can differ from infidelity to sodomy– however there is no public info on their status.
‘I urge you to immediately quash all convictions and death sentences, refrain from seeking further death, sentences, and ensure that anyone charged with a recognizable criminal offence is tried in proceedings meeting international fair trial standards without recourse to the death penalty,’ the letter included.
‘I urge you to release all those detained for peacefully exercising their human rights.’
Rights groups have stated the closed-door trials of Rahnavard and Shekari looked like a ‘lynching committee’ with attorneys appointed by the federal government.
No family members existed and district attorneys depended on coerced confessions from the apprehended guys to sentence them.
Protests have actually swept Iran after the death of Masha Amini, 22, in the custody of the nation’s morality authorities.
The police supervised of implementing the nation’s stringent codes for ladies, such as needing to use headscarves– something it implicated Amini of refraining from doing.
Officials stated this month that the force, referred to as the Guidance Patrol, has actually been closed down.
Though supporters responded with raised eyebrows at the news, stating the relocation was symbolic at finest which the limitations on ladies were still securely in location.
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