Iran on Monday executed a second prisoner detained and convicted amid nationwide protests challenging the country's theocracy.
, publicly hanging him from a construction crane as a gruesome warning to others. Tehran aired footage on state television it claimed showed him stabbing two men to death and running away.
Frame grab from video taken by an individual who isn't employed by The Associated Press and that was obtained by the AP outside Iran shows people blocking an intersection during a protest in Tehran on Oct. 26, 2022 to mark 40 days since the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.Iran's Mizan news agency, under the country's judiciary, alleged Rahnavard stabbed two security force members to death Nov. 17 in Mashhad and wounded four others.
A heavily edited state television report aired after Rahnavard's execution showed clips of him in the courtroom. In the video, he says he came to hate the Basijis after seeing video clips on social media of the forces beating and killing protesters. Mizan said Rahnavard was convicted in Mashhad's Revolutionary Court. The tribunals have been internationally criticized for not allowing those on trial to pick their own lawyers or even see the evidence against them.
"We are going to approve a very, very tough package of sanctions," Borrell told reporters as he arrived to chair the ministerial meeting in Brussels. Finland's foreign minister said that he also called his Iranian counterpart.Afterwards, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of the Oslo-based activist group Iran Human Rights wrote that the"execution of #MohsenShekari must be me with STRONG reactions otherwise we will be facing daily executions of protesters.
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