Four demonstrators have been executed since the start of the uprising in the country. At least 80 other people risk undergoing the same fate.
by Ghazal Golshiri and Madjid Zerrouky
When Mohammad Mehdi Karami learned, in early December, his conviction to capital punishment, he called his father: “They pronounced my sentence. This is the execution.” Does not say anything to my mother. “The 22 -year -old Iranian was hanged on Saturday January 7, at the same time as Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, 39 years old. The two men were arrested in early November, during a demonstration against power in the city of Karadj, 30 kilometers from the capital, Tehran. Mohammad Mehdi Karami, son of a daily worker, international of Karate, and Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, working in a chicken coop and without family, were sentenced to death in the murder of a member of the police, killed on the scene of the demonstration. Fourteen other people were tried in connection with this case.
Since the start of the uprising in the country, triggered by the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini at the end of her police custody for a “poorly worn” veil, on September 16, 2022, the Islamic Republic of Iran proceeded to the execution of four men in connection with the dispute. In early December, Mohsen Shekari and Majid Reza Rahnavard had been hanged. According to human rights organizations, at least 80 other people, including three additional cases announced by the authorities on Monday, may undergo the same fate.
Among the four men executed, none had access to the lawyer of his choice during the trial. They were all hanged without their loved ones being warned. Mohammad Mehdi Karami was executed while he was on hunger strike for three days to protest against his detention. “Despite his insistence and that of his relatives, Mohammad Mehdi did not have the authorization to sign the paper necessary to designate me as his lawyer, explains from Tehran the famous lawyer Mohammad Hossein Aghassi. I intended to prepare The appeal to the Supreme Court. But they were in a hurry to execute my client. “
Last December, Ali Sharifzadeh Ardakani, the lawyer that Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini managed to designate to appeal to the Supreme Court, said the tortures suffered by his client during his interrogations. “While his eyes were bandaged, his hands and his feet handcuffed, he was struck, sometimes in the head, until vanishing, explains the lawyer on Twitter on December 12. He also spoke of fire Tase on different parts of his body and shots of metal bar on the soles of his feet. The confessions obtained under torture have no legal value. “The two Iranians were hanged only forty days after their arrest. “The speed with which these executions took place is a way [for power] to stage your own control of events, but also to support its base, analyzes Mohammad Hossein Aghassi. And all this was done illegally . “
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