Iran, first protester executed: killed Mohsen Shekari, he had participated in a roadblock

Mohsen Shekari was executed🇧🇷 The announcement was made by the Iranian Ministry of Justice, explaining that it was the first death sentence for a demonstrator since the beginning of anti-government protests in the country, which began in mid-September after the death, in custody of the moral police, of Mahsa Amini. .

A revolutionary court found Shekari guilty of the crime of “War Against God” for participating in a road block “with the intent to create terror and to kill” and “intentionally” stabbing a member of the Basij paramilitary force while on duty. According to the judiciary, the defendant would have confessed. The sentence was later upheld by the Federal Supreme Court.

The protests, which began against the moral police, have become one of the most serious challenges to Iranian theocracy since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Mohsen Shekari’s assassination could be the first in a long line: in fact, other protesters may be executed soon and at least seven people arrested as part of the protests and so far sentenced to death.

“We need to respond strongly with concrete measures at the international level to the execution of Mohsen Shekari, otherwise we face daily executions of demonstrators,” said Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of the Oslo-based activist group Iran Human Rights. Shekari was arrested on 25 September and convicted on 20 November on the charge of “moharebeh”, a Farsi word meaning “war against God”, a charge that carries the death penalty.

For months now, the Iranian authorities have violently repressed the protest movement, which began with women demonstrating for greater freedom and respect for their human rights and now also involves men and various social classes united by the demand to end the system equal to the Republic. Islamic.