Iran court sentences three more to death
PARIS/TEHRAN: Iranian courts issued three more death sentences for violence linked to protests over Mahsa Amini’s death, the judiciary said on Wednesday, bringing to five the total handed down in three days.
One was convicted of attacking police officers with his car, killing one of them, the second had stabbed a security officer and the third tried to block traffic and spread “terror”, the judiciary’s Mizan Online website reported, citing the verdicts.
Five people went on trial on October 29 before the revolutionary court of Tehran, the judicial authority announced at the time. Protests swelled in cities across Iran late on Tuesday, according to social media videos, following a day of general strikes marking the anniversary of one of the deadliest uprisings in the country’s history.
Scores of unverified videos shared on Twitter purportedly showed protests in multiple districts across the capital, Tehran, and in other cities like Shiraz, Esfahan, Hamedan, Bushehr, Bukan, Rasht and Sanandaj.
Sparked by the death in police custody of 22-year-old KurdishIranian woman Mahsa Amini, the protests are now in their ninth week and represent one of the strongest public rebukes against the Islamic Republic and its leadership since the 1979 revolution.
Charges have been filed against more than 2,000 individuals in provinces across Iran in connection to the protests.
Footage showed security forces responding with force.
In one video, taken from the platform of a Tehran metro station, commuters were seen screaming and trying to run as they were being fired on by security forces.