Iran sentenced to death on Sunday, for the first time, a person accused of having participated in the “riots” which have shaken the country for two months, announced the judicial authority.
No information was given about his identity or age.
According to the verdict handed down by a court in Tehran, this person is found guilty of “setting fire to a government building, disturbing public order, assembly and conspiracy to commit a crime against national security, being an enemy of God and of corruption on earth”, specified Mizan online, the agency of the judicial authority.
Another court in the capital sentenced five people to five to 10 years in prison for “gathering and conspiring to commit crimes against national security and disturbing public order”.
These are courts of first instance and convicts can therefore appeal, Mizan online said.
Iran has been experiencing a wave of protests since the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, arrested three days earlier by vice police for violating the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code.
Iranian justice has also charged nearly 800 people for their participation in “recent riots” in the provinces of Hormozgan, Isfahan and Markazi.
More than 2,000 people have been charged, half of them in Tehran, for two months, according to figures provided by Iranian justice.
According to Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the director of the Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR), at least 20 people now face charges that carry the death penalty.
“We are very concerned that the executions could be carried out hastily,” he also told AFP.
He urged “the international community to firmly warn the Iranian authorities that applying the death penalty to protesters was not acceptable and would have consequences”.
law of retaliation
Recently, a large majority of the 290 Iranian deputies had asked justice to apply the law of retaliation to the moharebs (enemies of God), in reference to the authors of the “riots” which shook the country.
Iran also castigated Sunday’s meeting in Paris between the French president and opponents, describing as “regrettable and shameful” his statements at the end of this meeting.
Emmanuel Macron received four Iranian activists in Paris on Friday and hailed the “revolution they are leading” in their country.
“This is a flagrant violation of France’s international responsibilities in the fight against terrorism and violence and we consider that it promotes these sinister phenomena,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser. Kanani.
Iran also reacted strongly on Sunday to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s remarks on his weekly video podcast the day before.
“What kind of government are you that shoots its own citizens? Anyone who acts in this way must expect our opposition,” said the Chancellor.
“The destruction of historic relations between Iran and Germany will have long-term consequences and Iran has a long list of human rights claims against Germany,” he said. said the spokesman for Iranian Foreign Affairs, denouncing Germany’s “interventionist” and “provocative” position.
According to IHR, at least 326 people were killed by security forces during the crackdown on protests. This figure includes at least 123 people killed since September 30 in the province of Sistan-Baluchistan (southeast), bordering Pakistan.
In an attempt to calm the situation in Sistan-Baluchistan, a delegation dispatched by the Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei went this weekend to this underprivileged province, populated by a large Sunni minority.
Arrived on Saturday evening in Zahedan, the provincial capital, his representative Mohammad-Javad Haj Ali Akbari said on Sunday: “We have come to convey to you the grief and sadness that the Supreme Leader feels over the incidents that have occurred”. in Sistan-Balochistan.