Amnesty International has announced that at least 26 people are at risk of execution in connection with the protests, following the recent executions by hanging of two protesters. Protests erupted in Iran after the death of 22-year-old Iranian Kurd Mahsha Amini on September 16 while being detained by the morality police. According to the London-based human rights group, Iran executes more convicts than any other country except China.
A prominent dissident Sunni cleric urged Iranian authorities to release thousands of detained protesters and halt executions as fresh protests broke out today, with unrest entering its fourth month in the Islamic Republic, mainly in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan.
Amnesty International has announced that at least 26 people are at risk of execution in connection with the protests, following the recent executions by hanging of two protesters. Protests erupted in Iran after the death of 22-year-old Iranian Kurd Mahsha Amini on September 16 while being detained by the morality police. According to the London-based human rights group, Iran executes more convicts than any other country except China.
Molawi Abdulhamid, a Sunni cleric, criticized the death penalty, according to his website.
“We compassionately recommend that you release the prisoners who were recently detained during these protests and do not treat them harshly. Most of them are young, very young. Free the young men and women,” said Molavi Abdulhamid .
“Do not accuse them (of criminal acts), and if that happens, they should not be sentenced to death and put to death,” the cleric said during the Friday prayer sermon.
After the sermon, protesters took to the streets of Zahedan, the capital of the impoverished and remote province of Sistan-Baluchistan in southeastern Iran. “This nation wants freedom, it wants a country that prospers!” they shouted, in a video posted on social media. Reuters was unable to verify the video.
Another video shows protesters chanting “Death to the dictator”, referring to the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The video, verified by Agence France-Presse, was released by the Iran Human Rights (IHR) organization based in Oslo.
Other images from Zahedan show crowds of men, some holding placards with pro-independence slogans, and a group of women dressed in black walking down a nearby street, also shouting slogans.
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