The EU considers the execution of two more protesters in Iran “another sign of the brutal crackdown on civil demonstrations by the country’s authorities.”
The European Union has shocked the execution of two more people who were arrested and sentenced to death in connection with the ongoing protests in Iran. This statement was made public by the EU Foreign Service on Saturday, January 7.
“This is another sign of the brutal crackdown on civilian demonstrations by the Iranian authorities. The European Union once again calls on the Iranian authorities to immediately stop the evil practice of issuing and carrying out the death penalty against those protester,” the document said.
Among other things, Brussels called on Tehran to “immediately lift the latest death sentences handed down in the context of the ongoing protests and ensure that all detainees receive due process.” “It is necessary to exclude situations where people under arrest or in prison are subject to ill-treatment in any form,” the EU statement emphasizes.
The EU’s condemnation of the death penalty as punishment
At the same time, the EU authorities called on Tehran to strictly comply with its obligations stated in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. “Fundamental rights, including the right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, must be respected at all times,” the EU Foreign Office said in a press release.
“The EU reiterates its firm and principled opposition to the use of the death penalty at all times and in all circumstances. The death penalty is a cruel and inhuman punishment that does not act as a deterrent to crime and constitutes an unacceptable denial of human dignity and integrity. Furthermore, it is a punishment that makes irreversible the possible miscarriage of justice,” the document further reads.
Death sentences against demonstrators in Iran
Earlier, the Iranian Ministry of Justice notified the execution of two more people by hanging. In December 2022, an Iranian court convicted them of the death of a member of the Basij paramilitary group, which is under the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Now the total number of death sentences carried out against protesters in Iran, according to official figures, has reached four cases. The total number of death sentences handed down in connection with the protests, according to AFP, is 14.
In mid-December, the EU imposed new sanctions on Iran for serious human rights violations. According to human rights activists, during the protests since mid-September, at least 470 demonstrators have been killed in Iran, more than 18,000 have been imprisoned.
Execution of a young rapper in Iran
The execution of the first participant in mass actions in Iran became known on December 8. It was about the 23-year-old rapper Mohsen Shekari. The Islamic Revolutionary Court found the young man guilty of “hatred against God.” According to investigators, on September 25, he participated in the blockade of a boulevard in the Sattar Khan district of Tehran and stabbed a member of the Basij with a knife. The activist himself said he was convicted after a “show trial without any due process of law.”
Mass demonstrations began in Iran in September after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was detained by a police vice for allegedly wearing the “wrong” hijab. The protests were the largest since the 1979 revolution – they affected 160 cities in all the provinces of the country. The deaths of 61 security personnel were also reported. In total, Iran’s judiciary has so far sentenced to death at least 25 people in connection with the protests.
Source: DW
It has also been reported that Iran will kill people who protest in the country’s streets. We are talking about more than 14 thousand people.
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