An Iranian expert soccer participant is amongst dozen folks who are on the chance of going through capital punishment aka the loss of life penalty for taking part withinside the anti-hijab protests, rights businesses have stated. Tehran, they say, is the use of the loss of life penalty as an intimidation tactic to quell protests. Nationwide anti-hijab protests have erupted in elements of Iran after 22-year-vintage Iranian lady Mahsa Amini died in a health facility in Tehran below suspicious circumstances. She changed into arrested via way of means of the morality police for allegedly violating Iran’s obligatory hijab law.
The 26-year-vintage football participant, Amir Nasr-Azadani, changed into arrested after he participated withinside the anti-hijab protests. He changed into additionally charged with the loss of life of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander.
Amir Nasr-Azadani had reportedly participated withinside the anti-hijab protests. He had additionally chanted anti-authorities slogans. The 26-year-vintage changed into arrested and charged with moharebeh (enmity towards God) which awards the loss of life penalty as punishment.
Among individuals who face the loss of life penalty for taking part withinside the anti-hijab protests consist of a medical doctor and rap artists.
The executions of Mohsen Shekari and Majidreza Rahnavard, each 23, and the primary human beings placed to loss of life over the protests, sparked an outcry. Majidreza Rahnavard changed into hanged from a crane in public as opposed to in prison.
“Unless the political value of the executions is elevated significantly, we are able to be going through mass executions,” stated Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of the Norway-primarily based totally Iran Human Rights group, accusing Iran of the use of loss of life penalty to “unfold worry amongst human beings and shop the regime from the national protests”.
The Iranian government say the ones going through loss of life consequences are “rioters” who’re being judged in complete accordance with the country’s sharia law.
Amnesty International presently confirms eleven instances of loss of life sentences issued towards people over the protests, and any other 9 instances in which people were charged with crimes that would see them given the loss of life penalty.
Amnesty additionally stated that one protester, diagnosed as Sahand Nourmohammad-Zadeh, changed into presented loss of life over charges — which he denied — that he did no extra than tear down motorway railings and set hearthplace to garbage boxes and tyres.
A medical doctor, Hamid Ghare-Hasanlou and his spouse Farzaneh Ghare-Hasanlou had been on their manner to the funeral of a killed protester once they had been “stuck up withinside the chaos” of a deadly attack on a member of the Basij militia. While Hamid Ghare-Hasanlou changed into sentenced to loss of life and later hospitalised with damaged ribs, his spouse changed into given 25 years in prison.
On Amir Nasr-Azadani, Amnesty stated the football participant changed into in a comparable role after being charged over the deaths of 3 safety officials.