Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence handed down on Mohammad B., who is accused of stabbing an Iranian security agent, local media reported on Monday.
According to Iranian legal news portal Misan, Saturday’s verdict is based on the crime of “mokharebe”, which translates as “waging war with God” or “waging war with God and the state”, and for arson in a public place. building during protests following the death of a young Kurd, Mahsa Amini, September 16, 2022.
With this additional sentence, more than two dozen have already been sentenced to death following protest demonstrations that followed the death of Amini, who succumbed to injuries apparently inflicted by Iranian customs police who arrested her on September 13 on charges of misusing the “hijab,” an Islamic handkerchief.
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