Iranian justice also indicted nearly 800 people on Sunday for their participation in “recent riots” in the center of the country. They will be judged from Thursday.
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A court in Tehran (Iran) sentenced to death on Sunday, November 13, for the first time, a person accused of having participated “to the riots”, reported the agency of the judicial authority Mizan online. According to the verdict which condemns him to the death penalty, he is found guilty “burning down a government building, disturbing public order, gathering and conspiring to commit a crime against national security, and an enemy of God and corruption on earth”said the agency.
Another court in the capital also sentenced five people to prison terms of 5 to 10 years for “gathering and conspiracy to commit crimes against national security and disturbing public order”. These are courts of first instance and the convicted can therefore appeal, specifies Mizan.
Earlier in the day, Iranian justice indicted nearly 800 people for their participation in “recent riots” in the province southern Hormozgan and those of Isfahan and Markazi (center), according to Mizan. The people in question will be tried from Thursday, said the judicial authority. They are accused of “gathering and conspiracy against the security of the country”, “propaganda against the regime”, “disturbing public order”, “riots”, “incitement to murder”, “injuring security agents” and “damage to public property”.
Iran has been rocked by a wave of protests since the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, arrested three days earlier by morality police for breaking the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code.