First execution in Iran of a person involved in the protests

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Iran

executed a man on Thursday for wounding a member of the

paramilitary force during protests that have rocked the country for nearly three months, the judiciary agency Mizan Online said.

"

, a rioter who blocked Sattar Khan Boulevard (in Tehran, ndlr) on September 25 and stabbed a basich with a machete, was executed Thursday morning" in the Iranian capital, Mizan Online reported.

This is the first known execution linked to these protests.

In total, eleven other convicts are at risk of suffering the same fate for participating in these demonstrations.

According to the judiciary agency, the preliminary verdict in the case was delivered on November 1 by

's revolutionary court and the

rejected the appeal on November 20, leading to the execution of the sentence.

The judicial authority assures that Shekari admitted guilty of having fought and of having drawn "his weapon with the intention of killing, causing terror and disturbing the order and security of society."

"He intentionally wounded a basich with a knife while he was doing his duty and blocked Sattar Khan street in Tehran," the agency added.

Iran is the scene of a wave of protests after the death on September 16 of

, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman who died after being arrested by the morality police for violating the country's dress code, which obliges women to wear wear a veil

The authorities, who denounce these events as "riots", regularly accuse the

and its Western allies and Kurdish groups abroad of instigating this unprecedented protest movement.

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