Iranian justice announced, Tuesday, December 6, to have pronounced the death penalty against five people for having killed a paramilitary during the demonstrations triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini.
This brings the number of death sentences in connection with the unrest to eleven.
Iran is the scene of protests sparked by the September 16 death of this 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, who died after her arrest by vice squad for violating the Islamic Republic's strict dress code, including wearing a veil for women.
The five sentenced to death were found guilty on Monday of the death of Ruhollah Ajamian, a member of the Basij militia, linked to the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic, said during a conference press release Massoud Setayeshi, the spokesman for the judiciary.
They were accused of "corruption on earth", one of the most serious charges in the Iranian penal code, of "crimes against the security of the country, against the physical integrity of people and serious disturbances to order audience".
In addition, eleven people, including three minors, were sentenced to "long prison terms", added Massoud Setayeshi.
A woman was also sentenced but he did not specify her sentence.
These judgments are subject to appeal before the Supreme Court, but it is rare for this body to reverse a death sentence decided in first instance by a revolutionary court.
The death of the paramilitary took place on November 3 near the Karaj cemetery, west of Tehran, during a rally marking the 40th day of mourning following the death of a protester.
Several thousand arrests
According to the prosecution, the convicted persons had attacked this security guard who was unarmed.
They stripped him, stabbed him, beat him and then dragged his naked body down the street.
Six people had already been sentenced to death in November.
The authorities see the demonstrations rocking the country as "riots" and regularly accuse the United States and its Western allies, as well as Kurdish groups based abroad, of being the instigators of this unprecedented protest movement.
They arrested thousands of people and reported the deaths of some 300 people, including protesters and security forces.
The Revolutionary Guards announced on Tuesday the arrest of twelve people accused of belonging to a "group of saboteurs" with links to European countries.
"The members of this network, under the leadership of counter-revolutionary agents living in Germany and the Netherlands, attempted to obtain arms and intended (...) to carry out activities against national security “, said the Revolutionary Guards of the province of Markazi (center) in a press release quoted by the Tasnim agency.
“They were captured” and their “plan of riots failed”, they added, without specifying the place and the date of the arrests.
Last weekend, Iran's attorney general, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, announced the abolition of the morality police, created in 2006, an announcement seen as a gesture towards the demonstrators.
But since then, the veracity of this statement has been questioned.
For his part, MP Hossein Jalali proposed to "change the method" in relation to women who refuse to wear the compulsory veil.
"We could consider (them) threatening by SMS to block their bank account," he said, quoted Tuesday by the daily Shargh.
With AFP
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