Iran kills its first known prisoner who was detained during protests
Iran kills its first known prisoner who was detained during protests
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Dubai: Iran announced on Thursday that it has executed a prisoner convicted of a crime allegedly committed during ongoing nationwide protests in the country This was the first such execution in Tehran.

The execution takes place among other detainees potentially facing the death penalty for participating in the protests, which began as a reaction against Iran's morality police and have since followed the Islamic Revolution of 1979. has since become one of the most significant threats to democracy.

As activists claim that at least a dozen people have already been sentenced to death for taking part in the demonstrations, they issue warnings that additional executions could soon take place.

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Iran's human rights director Mahmoud Amiri-Moghaddam wrote that "Mohsen Shekhri's execution should be met with strong reactions to me otherwise we will have to face the executions of protesters every day." "This execution should have immediate practical implications on a global scale."

The execution was reported by Iran's Mizan news agency. It claimed the man had blocked a road and attacked a security guard in Tehran with a knife.

The man who was executed was named Mohsen Shekhri by the country's judiciary-run Mizan news agency. It claimed that he was found guilty by Tehran's revolutionary court, which usually hears cases behind closed doors and denies defendants the right to choose their own lawyers or even access evidence against them. The first was criticized from around the world for refusing to

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According to Mijan, Shekhri was detained on 24 September and found guilty on 20 November of the Persian crime of "mohrebeh", which means "waging war against God." Since 1979, this charge, carrying the death penalty, has been brought against other people.

Since the September 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini—who died after being arrested by the country's morality police—protests have rocked Iran.

At least 475 people have been killed in demonstrations amid a harsh security crackdown, according to human rights activists in Iran, a group that has been tracking the protests since they began. The authorities have taken in more than 18,000 people.

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Iran is one of the world's top executioners. Prisoners are usually hanged. Amnesty International reported that it had already received a document from a senior Iranian police commander requesting that a prisoner's execution be carried out "in the shortest possible time" and in public in a "touching manner towards the security forces". be done as a "taking gesture".

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