Thousands of people have been arrested; And eleven, condemned to death since the beginning of the protest movement launched by the death of Mahsa Amini, in September.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
In Iran, the sanctions continue to rain. Five people were sentenced to death, and eleven to “long prison sentences”, including three minors, for the murder of a paramilitary during demonstrations in the country, the spokesman for authority announced on Tuesday 6 December judicial. These last verdicts bring to eleven the number of people condemned to death in connection with the disorders that have shaken Iran for more than two months.
The five sentenced to capital punishment were found guilty Monday in November of Ruhollah Ajamian, member of the Bassidj, militia linked to the revolution guards, the Ideological Army of the Islamic Republic, said during A Massoud Setayeshi press conference.
The same day, the revolution guards announced the arrest of twelve people accused of belonging to a “group of saboteurs” with links with European countries. “The members of this network, under the leadership of counter-revolutionary agents living in Germany and in the Netherlands, tried to obtain weapons and intended to carry out activities against national security”, said the revolution guards of the province of Markazi (Center) in a statement quoted by the Tasnim agency, also warning against other “terrorist actions”.
more than three hundred people were killed
Monday, it was the deputy director of the Iranian news agency Fars, close to the authorities, who was arrested “for falsifying news,” announced the public radiévision Irib.
According to it, “he is still in detention so that we can know the reasons why he was fed up and created false newsletters”. These are confidential bulletins distributed to certain subscribers. On November 26, Fars announced on his Telegram channel that “user access” to his site “had been disrupted” after “a complex piracy and cyberattack operation”. A group calling itself “Black Reward” claimed the cyber attack by saying that it had had access to dozens of confidential documents.
Iran is the scene of demonstrations since the death, on September 16, of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian 22 -year -old Kurdish who died three days after his arrest in Tehran by the Police of Manners. The latter reproached him for having violated the strict dress code of the Islamic Republic.
More than three hundred people were killed in the troubles, including dozens of security forces, said a general of the revolution guards last week. Thousands of people including journalists, actors and lawyers were also arrested during demonstrations, generally called “riots” by the authorities, who regularly accuse the United States and their Western allies as well as Kurdish groups based Abroad to be the instigators of this unprecedented protest movement.