Washington: The United States has strongly condemned Iran’s death penalty for anti-hijab protests. Street Department spokesman Ned Price said the government fears its own people and strongly condemns this brutal act. Public executions were carried out by Iran to terrorize the people. They try to suppress dissent. “This is proof of how much they fear their own people,” he said. Stéphane Dujarric calls for an end to the death penalty, UN spokesman says at UN He also said that UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres had described the circumstances behind the executions as “brutal”.
Iran executed two people for participating in anti-hijab protests. Majidreza Rahnavard was publicly hanged the other day in the case of stabbing two security personnel. Mohsen Shekari was hanged on Thursday. He was sentenced to death for blocking one of Tehran’s main roads and assaulting soldiers during the protests. There are reports that at least ten people have been sentenced to death. After the killing of a young woman named Mahsa Amini for not wearing a hijab, protesters clashed with security forces across the country and 470 people were killed.