In Iran, the repression is increasing a bit. A Tehran court on Sunday sentenced, for the first time, to death a person accused of having participated in “the riots” that rocked the country, the agency of the Mizan judicial authority announced online. No information on his identity or age was provided.
According to the verdict, this person is found guilty of “setting fire to a government building, disturbing public order, meeting and concert to commit crimes against national security, being an enemy of God and corruption on earth,” the agency said.
Another court in the capital sentenced five people to between five and ten years in prison for “gathering and conspiring to commit crimes against national security and disturbance of public order.” These are courts of first instance and therefore those convicted can appeal, Mizan specifies.
law of retaliation
Recently, a large majority of the 290 Iranian deputies had asked the courts to apply the law of retaliation against the “enemies of God”, in reference to the perpetrators of the “riots” that shook the country.
The deputies called on all officials in the country, including the judiciary, to apply the reprisal law as soon as possible against the moharebs (enemies of God).
“Like the Islamic State group, they harmed people’s lives and property with bladed weapons and firearms,” the parliamentarians said.
As a reminder, Iran has been rocked by a wave of protests since the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman, arrested three days earlier by the morality police for violating the religion’s strict dress code. islamic Republic.
About 800 people charged
Iranian justice has also charged about 800 people for their participation in “recent disturbances” in the provinces of Hormozgan, Isfahan and Markazi.
The general director of Justice of the province of Hormozgan, quoted on Sunday by Mizan, announced the accusation of 164 people “indicted after the recent riots against security” in this province. They must be tried as of Thursday, in the presence of their lawyers.
These people are accused of “gathering and conspiracy against the security of the country”, “propaganda against the regime”, “disturbing public order”, “riots”, “incitement to murder”, “injuring security agents” and “degrading “. publicly owned.”
In addition, Asadollah Jafari, director general of the Judicial Authority of the province of Isfahan, quoted on Saturday night by the Tasnim agency, reported 316 cases related to recent riots. According to him, twelve defendants have already been tried.
In Markazi province, 276 people have been charged according to Abdol-Mehdi Mousavi, the province’s director of justice, quoted by the official Irna news agency. Meanwhile, 100 youths detained during the recent riots were released without trial after signing promises not to participate in any more “riots”.
326 dead in two months, according to an Iranian NGO
Since the very beginning of the protests two months ago, more than 2,000 people have been charged, half of them in Tehran, according to figures provided by the Iranian justice system.
Human rights organizations abroad report 15,000 arrests, a figure denied by the Iranian authorities.
According to figures from the Iranian human rights NGO (IHRNGO), at least 326 people have been killed since the start of the conflict, including 43 children.
Source: BFM TV
