Amnesty International has criticized what it calls “fake trials aimed to scare people who participated in Iran’s popular revolt”
Iran has executed a second prisoner seized during the current countrywide protests against the government.
Majidreza Rahnavard, age 23, was publicly executed in the city of Mashhad on Monday morning, according to the Mizan news agency of the Iranian court.
After the death of Mohsen Shekari on Thursday, who was accused of wounding a security guard with a machete and blocking a street in Tehran, this is the second such execution in less than a week, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
Rahnavard was found guilty of murdering two members of the security forces.
Amnesty International has criticized what it calls “fake trials aimed to scare people who participated in Iran’s popular revolt”
At least a dozen people have already been sentenced to death in closed-door tribunals, activists fear.
State media released a video depicting a man, named Rahnavard, attacking another man, who fell against a parked motorcycle, and then stabbing a third person before fleeing.
Following the execution of Mahsa Amini, demonstrators continue to take to the streets in defiance of the government and the threat of the security forces.
The Kurdish-Iranian woman, age 22, passed while in the custody of Iran’s morality police.
Meanwhile, the EU is expected to approve an “extremely harsh” package of sanctions against Iran, according to the bloc’s foreign policy leader.
“We will accept a very stringent package of punishment,” stated Josep Borrell.
“(The EU) will assist young women and nonviolent demonstrations in whatever way possible.”
Academics have criticized Iran’s allegations that its foreign opponents and Kurdish separatists are to blame for the uprising.
