Amnesty International called on the Iranian regime on Thursday to stop everything Protest-related executions immediately in the country. In a statement, the organization condemned what it described as the “arbitrary” executions of both Muhammad Mahdi Karami and Sayed Muhammad Hosseini, warning that there are others facing the same fate.
Diana Eltahawy, deputy director of the organization’s Middle East and North Africa regional office, said the continuation of the killing spree by the regime in Tehran and its attempt to end the protests by spreading fear among the people is “repugnant”.
El-Tahawy added: “The arbitrary execution of Muhammad Mahdi Karami and Sayed Muhammad Hosseini, just days after their death sentences were upheld, reveals the extent to which the Iranian authorities continue to use the death penalty as a weapon of repression.” “.
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The UN human rights official said the Iranian government The death penalty is used as a weapon to spread fear among citizens and the elimination of dissent, adding that the executions amounted to “state-sanctioned killings”.
“Weaponizing a criminal case to punish people exercising their fundamental rights, such as those who participated in or organized demonstrations, is tantamount to state-sanctioned killing,” the UN High Commissioner for Justice said in a statement. human rights Volker Türk, explaining that the executions violated international human rights law.
Tehran is cracking down on anti-government demonstrations taking place in Iran and about 100 people are at risk of execution in connection with the protest movements, according to human rights organizations and networks. Hundreds died on the sidelines of the protests. The authorities also arrested thousands of people who participated in the movements, which included slogans against them.
In a related matter, the UK asked on Wednesday Iran suspends execution of ‘politically motivated’ death sentence handed down to person convicted of espionage for British intelligence.
Iran’s judiciary has handed down a death sentence against a person who was presented as occupying an “important” position in the Iranian Republic, after being convicted of spying for the UK, an official source said on Wednesday.
“Iran must stop the execution of Anglo-Iranian national Alireza Akbari and release him immediately,” British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly wrote on Twitter, adding: “It is a politically motivated act by a barbaric regime that completely ignores life Human”.
“Ali Reza Akbari was sentenced to death on charges of corruption on the ground, for harming the country’s internal and external security by passing on intelligence information,” the judiciary website, Mizan Online, reported.
The website did not provide details on the date of Akbari’s arrest or the verdict against him, indicating that the Supreme Court had approved it.
The site did not specify details about Akbari’s role or duties, but the government newspaper “Iran” had interviewed him in February 2019 presenting him as “a former deputy defense minister in the government of Muhammad Khatami”, the reformist who assumed the presidency of the Republic of Iran between 1997 and 2005.
