Iranian protesters gathers outside prisoner to stop execution

• Dozens show up outside a prison in Iran amid reports of impending executions.
• The mother of Mohammad Ghobadlou made a clemency request.
• At least 519 protestors have died as a result of unrest in Iran so far, said state media.

In Iran, dozens of people showed up outside a prison overnight amid allegations that the government was getting ready to execute two more antigovernmental demonstrators.

Videos of protesters yelling slogans in front of Karaj’s Rajai Shahr jail were shared online by opposition activists.

At the gathering, the mother of Mohammad Ghobadlou—one of the two men facing execution—made a clemency request.

On Saturday, two demonstrators were hung, drawing criticism from around the world.

The UN human rights office deplored the “shocking” executions of Mohammad Mahdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, which it said followed “unfair trials based on forced confessions”.

They were the third and fourth individuals to perish as a result of the protests that broke out in September after a lady was found dead in detention while being held by morality police for reportedly donning her hijab “improperly.”

Authorities have labelled them “riots” and used deadly force in response.

The News Agency reports that 68 security personnel and at least 519 protestors have died so far as a result of the turmoil.

Another 19,290 protestors have reportedly been detained, and 111 of them are reportedly “under the looming threat of a death sentence” after being found guilty or accused of capital offences, according to the report.

After activists warned that Mohammad Ghobadlou and Mohammad Boroughani had been moved to solitary confinement in anticipation of being executed, people gathered outside Rajai Shahr jail on Sunday night.

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