Iran: Demonstrator executed for stabbing member of security forces

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More than 300 people have been killed in the riots, including dozens of members of the security forces

It was executed today in Iran, a protester who had been sentenced to death for stabbing a member of the security forces and blocking a road in Tehran.

According to the Tasnim agency, it is about Mohsen Sakari.

An unprecedented protest movement has erupted in Iran following the death on September 16 of Mahsha Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, after she was arrested by the morality police for not wearing her headscarf properly.

More than 300 people have been killed in the riots, among them dozens of members of the security forces, as stated last week by a general of the Revolutionary Guards. Thousands more have been arrested.

The Revolutionary Guards they excelled on Monday the judicial system for its heavy-handed attitude towards the protesters and encouraged it to issue swift and severe sentences for those accused of “crimes against the security of the nation and Islam”.

Massoud Setayesi, a spokesman for the judiciary, said on Tuesday that five people had been sentenced to death for the killing of Basij militia member Ruhollah Ajamian in November.

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