Iran said on Monday it had executed the second prisoner detained in a wave of anti-government protests, the Mizan agency of the Iranian Judicial Authority reported.
The executed man was identified as Majidreza Rahnavard, accused of stabbing two members of the security forces to death and wounding four on November 17 in Mashhad, in the northeast of the country, Mizan added.
On Thursday, Iran executed the first prisoner arrested in the demonstrations.
At least two dozen Iranian protesters face possible execution as authorities respond to their involvement in anti-government protests, according to a report in the local daily Etemad on Saturday.
The publication released a list drawn up by the Iranian authorities accusing 25 protesters of “waging war against God”, a charge punishable by death under Iranian law.
On the list of 25 defendants is the ‘rapper’ Mohsen Shekari, the first protester to be executed, on Thursday morning, accused of assaulting a security guard with a pistol, inciting terror and blocking a road.
Shekari’s death drew strong condemnation at home and abroad, although Iranian political leaders, including President Ebrahim Raisi, described the execution as a legitimate response to unrest across the country.
Protesters threatened to act in response, spreading the message on social media: “Wait for our revenge.” Meanwhile, internationally, the Iranian population has also announced new anti-government protests.
Iran has been the scene of protests since mid-September, when Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman, died in police custody after being detained for not wearing the headscarf properly and violating Islamic dress codes.
Since then, the protests have been violently repressed by the authorities, who have won new sanctions imposed by the international community for issues related to Human Rights.
However, Tehran considers that the majority of Iranians support the government and accuses the country’s enemies and mercenaries of being behind the massive protests.
In almost three months of protests, more than 500 people have been killed and at least 15,000 have been arrested, according to the non-governmental organization (NGO) Iran Human Rights.
For their part, Iranian authorities put the death toll at 300, 50 of whom were members of the country’s security forces.
After almost three months of social protest, the dissolution of the morality police, responsible for the arrest and death of Amini, was announced, without which this announcement did not calm the situation.
But the disappearance of the patrols of that police force did not mean the end of the laws that impose the obligatory nature of the veil and other strict social norms in the country.
Everything seems to indicate that only the methods used to ensure compliance with these laws will change, whose violations, such as “the misuse of the hijab” [véu islâmico]now he will be punished with fines and up to two months in prison.
Source: TSF
