{"id":107776,"date":"2022-12-28T06:21:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T11:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=107776"},"modified":"2022-12-28T06:21:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T11:21:06","slug":"dozens-of-iran-protesters-risk-death-penalty-rights-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2022\/12\/28\/dozens-of-iran-protesters-risk-death-penalty-rights-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of Iran Protesters Risk Death Penalty: Rights Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 PARIS \u2014 <\/span>At least 100 Iranians arrested in more than 100 days of nationwide protests face charges punishable by death, Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights (IHR) said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Protests have gripped Iran since the September 16 death in custody of Iranian-Kurdish Mahsa Amini, 22, after her arrest in Tehran for an alleged breach of the country’s strict dress code for women.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Iran executed two men in connection with the protests, an escalation of the authorities’ crackdown that activists say is meant to instill public fear.<\/p>\n

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In a report Tuesday, IHR identified 100 detainees who face potential capital punishment, including at least 11 already sentenced to death.<\/p>\n

Five detainees on the IHR list are women.<\/p>\n

The report said many of them have limited access to legal representation.<\/p>\n

“By issuing death sentences and executing some of them, they (the authorities) want to make people go home,” said IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam.<\/p>\n

“It has some effect,” he told AFP, but “what we’ve observed in general is more anger against the authorities.”<\/p>\n

“Their strategy of spreading fear through executions has failed.”<\/p>\n

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In an updated death toll issued Tuesday, IHR said 476 protesters have been killed so far.<\/p>\n

Iran’s top security body in early December gave a toll of more than 200 people killed, including security officers.<\/p>\n

At least 14,000 people have been arrested since the nationwide unrest began, the United Nations said last month.<\/p>\n

Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, was hanged in public from a crane on December 12 after being sentenced by a court in Mashhad for killing two members of the security forces with a knife.<\/p>\n

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Four days earlier, Mohsen Shekari, also 23, had been executed for wounding a member of the security forces.<\/p>\n

The judiciary has said that nine others have been handed death sentences over the protests; two have been allowed retrials.<\/p>\n

A father’s plea<\/strong><\/p>\n

The father of death row inmate Mohammad Ghodablou has issued a plea on social media calling for his son’s release, saying “he made a big mistake.”<\/p>\n

“Mohammad has so far had no criminal record,” the father said in a video circulated this week, claiming he suffers from a mental disorder.<\/p>\n

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Ghodablou, 22, was charged in Tehran with “corruption on earth” for “attacking police with a car, which resulted in the death of one officer and the injury of five others.”<\/p>\n

The judiciary’s Mizan Online news website reported Monday that Ghodablou had undergone psychiatric evaluation that concluded he “was aware of the nature of his crime.”<\/p>\n

U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency noted in a report issued Monday an increase of 88% in executions in 2022 compared to last year and an 8% increase in death sentences, the vast majority of them for murder or drug offences.<\/p>\n

According to London-based rights group Amnesty International, Iran executed at least 312 people in 2021, second only to China in its use of the death penalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA \u2014 PARIS \u2014 At least 100 Iranians arrested in more than 100 days of nationwide protests face charges punishable by death, Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights (IHR) said Tuesday. Protests have gripped Iran since the September 16 death in custody of Iranian-Kurdish Mahsa Amini, 22, after her arrest in Tehran for an alleged breach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107779,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107776\/revisions\/107779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}