Human rights: Supreme Court confirms another death sentence in Iran

Human rights: Supreme Court confirms another death sentence in Iran

Despite international criticism, the Supreme Court confirms the death penalty against a 20-year-old protester. Human rights activists say the verdict was arbitrary.

In Iran, the Supreme Court has confirmed another death sentence in connection with anti-system protests last year.

As the Misan justice portal reported local time, the convict is accused of being involved in the killing of a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in the city of Malayer in the west of the country.

According to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the convicted person is Milad Sorewand, aged around 20. The Norway-based human rights organization Hengaw had already reported on Sorewand’s case in April and accused the Iranian judiciary of having brought the young man to trial under false allegations. Sorewand was also not given access to a lawyer.

The International Society for Human Rights (IGHR) spoke on Tuesday of an arbitrary death sentence. In the past, human rights activists had accused the Iranian government of carrying out executions as a tool to suppress protests and ethnic minorities. So far, seven participants in the latest wave of protests sparked by the death of Iranian Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini have been executed.

Source: Stern

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