Several Iranians at the risk of execution

• Several Iranians were at risk of imminent execution.
• There were protests that rattled the country’s Islamic authority.
• Mahsa Amini’s detention ignited the protest movement.

Several Iranians were at risk of imminent execution Sunday for protests that have rattled the country’s Islamic authority, rights groups said.

Mahsa Amini‘s detention by the Islamic republic’s morality police ignited the three-month protest movement.

It’s the regime’s largest challenge since the shah’s fall in 1979.

Iran said its enemies instigated the “riots”

Authorities are cracking down, which activists believe will instill fear.

Mohsen Shekari, 23, was hanged Thursday for stabbing a security officer. Rights organizations say his show trial was rushed.

Iran’s judiciary has recorded 11 death sentences in connection with the protests, but campaigners claim another dozen face charges that might lead to the death penalty.

Unless foreign countries “substantially escalate” diplomatic and economic consequences to Iran, the world “is green-lighting this carnage,” said Hadi Ghaemi of the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).

Amnesty International said Iran is “preparing to execute” Mahan Sadrat, 22, after his “grossly unjust” conviction. He denied drawing a knife during the protests in court.

Sadrat was relocated from Greater Tehran Prison to Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj on Saturday, Amnesty claimed.

Iran Human Rights, located in Oslo, stated he was refused access to his lawyer during interrogations, procedures, and the show trial.

Amnesty claimed the life of another protester, Sahand Nourmohammadzadeh, was in danger “following a fast-tracked process”

He was condemned to death in November for destroying highway railings and torching trash cans and tires, the organization stated.

Saman Seyedi, 24, from Iran’s Kurdish minority, received the same punishment. His mother pleaded for his life online, saying “my son is an artist, not a rioter.”

Toomaj Salehi, a dissident rapper who supported anti-regime protests, is charged with “corruption on earth” and could face the death penalty.

“We fear for the lives of Iranian artists who have been indicted on death-penalty allegations,” UN experts stated.

Amnesty and IHR have also raised Hamid Gharehasanlou’s issue. They believe he was mistreated in detention and his wife was forced to testify against him.

IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam called for a “stronger-than-ever” international response to prevent protester executions.

The US, EU, and UK criticized Shekari’s execution. Annalena Baerbock claimed it demonstrated “boundless disregard for human life.”

Iran summoned the British and German ambassadors on Saturday and Friday to protest their countries’ activities, the 15th time in less than three months.

Many campaigners seek to cut diplomatic ties with Iran and expel its envoys from European countries.

After worldwide criticism over Shekari’s death, Iran maintained it was showing caution in its security reaction and judicial “proportionality.”

IHR said Iran’s security forces had killed at least 458 individuals in a crackdown.

UN estimates 14,000 arrests.

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