Earlier this year, the Iranian government announced that it had executed the death penalty for a participant in a demonstration over the wearing of a headscarf, known as a hejab.
In Iran, there is a growing backlash against this, with Nobel Peace Prize laureates and human rights activists in prison announcing that they will stage a hunger strike and protest.
In Iran, in September of last year, a woman who was arrested for wearing a hejab, which women are required to wear in public, died, leading to protests across the country by citizens who suspected police brutality. It has spread.
During the demonstrations, there were violent clashes between citizens and security authorities in various places, and Iranian authorities have tightened their grip on the protests by detaining participants and other measures.
Against this backdrop, the Iranian judiciary announced on the 23rd that a 23-year-old man who participated in the demonstrations had been sentenced to death for ``participating in a riot and hitting six police officers with his car, killing one.'' Did.
In response, there is a growing backlash among Iranian people on social media.
Among them, human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize last month and is currently imprisoned in a prison in the capital Tehran, announced in a post on social media that he would go on a hunger strike on the 25th.
Mohammadi said he and 61 women imprisoned in the same prison were protesting for political reasons, adding, ``We are resisting in order to ensure the survival of the hundreds of people awaiting execution in the prison.'' We are appealing to the Iranian government to stop any further executions.