Iranian footballer among people facing death penalty for participating in anti-hijab protests

An Iranian expert soccer participant is amongst  dozen those who are on the chance of going through capital punishment aka the loss of life penalty for collaborating withinside the anti-hijab protests, rights businesses have stated. Tehran, they say, is the usage of the loss of life penalty as an intimidation tactic to quell protests. Nationwide anti-hijab protests have erupted in components of Iran after 22-year-vintage Iranian female Mahsa Amini died in a medical institution in Tehran below suspicious circumstances. She turned into arrested through the morality police for allegedly violating Iran’s obligatory hijab law.

The 26-year-vintage football participant, Amir Nasr-Azadani, turned into arrested after he participated withinside the anti-hijab protests. He turned into additionally charged with the loss of life of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander

Amir Nasr-Azadani had reportedly participated withinside the anti-hijab protests. He had additionally chanted anti-authorities slogans. The 26-year-vintage turned into arrested and charged with moharebeh (enmity towards God) which awards the loss of life penalty as punishment.

Among folks who face the loss of life penalty for collaborating withinside the anti-hijab protests consist of a health practitioner and rap artists.

The executions of Mohsen Shekari and Majidreza Rahnavard, each 23, and the primary humans placed to loss of life over the protests, sparked an outcry. Majidreza Rahnavard turned into hanged from a crane in public instead of in prison.

“Unless the political value of the executions is multiplied significantly, we are able to be going through mass executions,” stated Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of the Norway-primarily based totally Iran Human Rights group, accusing Iran of the usage of loss of life penalty to “unfold worry amongst humans and shop the regime from the national protests”.

The Iranian government say the ones going through loss of life consequences are “rioters” who’re being judged in complete accordance with the country’s sharia law.

Amnesty International presently confirms eleven instances of loss of life sentences issued towards people over the protests, and every other 9 instances wherein people were charged with crimes that would see them given the loss of life penalty.

Amnesty additionally stated that one protester, diagnosed as Sahand Nourmohammad-Zadeh, turned into presented loss of life over charges — which he denied — that he did no greater than tear down toll road railings and set hearthplace to garbage boxes and tyres.

A health practitioner, Hamid Ghare-Hasanlou and his spouse Farzaneh Ghare-Hasanlou have been on their manner to the funeral of a killed protester once they have been “stuck up withinside the chaos” of a deadly attack on a member of the Basij militia. While Hamid Ghare-Hasanlou turned into sentenced to loss of life and later hospitalised with damaged ribs, his spouse turned into given 25 years in prison.

On Amir Nasr-Azadani, Amnesty stated the football participant turned into in a comparable function after being charged over the deaths of 3 safety officials.