(Tehran) A man was executed in Iran on Tuesday after being sentenced to death for the murder of a soldier during the protest movement triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, the judiciary’s press organ announced.
“Gholamreza Rassaï was executed this morning [mardi] in Kermanshah prison” in western Iran, for “stabbing to death a Revolutionary Guard colonel [l’armée idéologique du pays] during the illegal protests in November 2022,” Mizan Online reported.
On November 27, 2022, the Tasnim news agency reported the colonel’s death and introduced him as “the intelligence chief of Sahneh county” in Kermanshah province.
A Kurdish-majority region, Kermanshah was at the time one of the epicenters of the protest movement.
Gholamreza Rezaei was sentenced to death in October 2023 by the Kermanshah Criminal Court in accordance with the law of retaliation, used in Iran in murder cases and linked to the victim’s family’s desire to see the death penalty applied, Mizan Online reported.
Ten men have so far been hanged after being convicted in connection with the protest movement that rocked the Islamic Republic following the death in custody in September 2022 of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman arrested for violating Iran’s strict dress code.
Several hundred people, including members of the security forces, have been killed and thousands arrested during the protest movement described by the authorities as “riots” orchestrated by Western countries.
On Tuesday, the courts announced the reduction of the three-year prison sentence imposed on popular singer Shervin Hajipour, whose song “Baraye” had become the anthem of the protests.