Three more demonstrators have received execution sentences from Iran.
The judiciary announced on Monday, January 9, that they accuse the demonstrators of murdering three security personnel during the rallies instigated by Mahsa Amini’s passing.
Since the death of Kurdish Iranian Amini, 22, on September 16 as a result of her imprisonment for allegedly breaking Iran’s strict dress code for women, the Islamic republic has been rocked by civil unrest.
With the most recent sentences, there are now 17 persons who have been given death sentences in connection with the more than three months of protests.
Two more people are currently on execution row after the country’s supreme court affirmed their sentences, and four of those who were found guilty have already been put to death.
According to the judiciary’s Mizan Online news website, Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi, and Saeed Yaghoubi received death sentences for “moharebeh,” or waging “war against God.”
The event that resulted in the deaths of three security force members in the central province of Isfahan on November 16 resulted in the sentences of two additional people, according to Mizan.
The Supreme Court will hear appeals from all punishments, it was added.
Iran killed Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini on Saturday for the murder of a member of a paramilitary unit in November in Karaj, west of Tehran.
Mohsen Shekari and Majidreza Rahnavard, two other men who had been found guilty of separate attacks on security forces, were executed in December.
The executions have prompted outcry throughout the world.
