On Monday, a second prisoner who was detained and convicted during the execution was executed in Iran nationwide protests against the theocracy of the country.
State television aired footage that the country claimed showed a man stabbing and killing two security forces before fleeing the scene.
Majidreza Rakhnavard’s public hanging came less than a month after he allegedly stabbed himself out of frustration at security forces killing protesters. A brief twist shows how quickly Iran executes those detained during demonstrations.
Activists said at least a dozen people had already been sentenced to death in closed hearings. Nearly 500 people have been killed since the demonstrations began in mid-September, according to Iran Human Rights Watch, a group that monitors the protests. Another 18,200 people were detained.
AT LEAST 24 TIMES IN IRAN THREATENED WITH EXECUTION FOR PARTICIPATION IN PROTESTS
On Monday, Iran executed a second inmate who was detained and convicted during nationwide protests against the theocracy in the country.
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Iran The Mizan news agency, which is under the jurisdiction of the country’s judiciary, claims that Rahnavard fatally wounded two security forces and wounded four others in the city of Mashhad on November 17. The agency said the execution was carried out on Monday morning in Mashhad.
State television showed footage showing a man chasing another around a corner, then standing over him and stabbing him after he fell onto a parked motorbike. The same man was also shown to injure another man immediately after the first attack. After that, the attacker fled from the scene.
Mizan identified the slain as Basij “students,” paramilitary volunteers of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. The Basij set up in major cities and attacked and detained protesters. In many cases, the demonstrators fought off the basijs.
A heavily edited state television report aired after Rakhnavard’s execution showed footage of him telling a courtroom that he came to hate the Basij after watching videos on social media of forces beating and killing protesters.
Mizan’s report claimed that Rahnavard was trying to flee to a foreign country when he was arrested.
Majidreza Rakhnavard’s public hanging came less than a month after he allegedly stabbed himself out of frustration at security forces killing protesters.
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Mashhad, a holy Shiite city activists say has been hit by strikes, closed its shops amid demonstrations after a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, died in custody after being detained Iran’s moral police.
According to Mizan, Rakhnavard was convicted by the Mashhad Revolutionary Court. There were tribunals criticized internationally for not allowing those on trial to choose their lawyers or to see the evidence against them.
Rahnavard was convicted on charges of “mohareb,” a Farsi word meaning “war against God,” which carries the death penalty.
Students took to the streets of Iran to protest the country’s theocracy.
(National Council of Resistance of Iran)
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Iran is one of the world’s leading executioners and routinely executes prisoners by hanging.
The first prisoner detained during the demonstrations last Thursday was executed in the country.
Amnesty International said it had obtained a document signed by a senior Iranian police commander demanding that the execution of one prisoner be “completed as soon as possible” and that his death sentence be carried out publicly as a “heartfelt gesture” by the security forces. .
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
