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Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, Iran. On 16 September 2022, 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini,[a]also known as Jina Amini,[b][1][2][3]died in a hospital in Tehran, Iran, under suspicious circumstances. The Guidance Patrol, the religious morality policeof Iran's government, arrested Amini for allegedly not wearing the hijabin accordance with ...
On 8 December 2022, Iran executed Mohsen Shekari for Moharebeh related to allegations that he blocked a road and stabbed a Basij militiaman during a protest of Amini's death. Shekari's execution was the first to be carried out as a direct result of the protests. Four days later, on 12 December, Iran publicly executed Majidreza Rahnavard by ...
The first execution of the Mahsa Amini protests took place on 8 December 2022, when 23-year-old Mohsen Shekari was hanged on charges of moharebeh for allegedly blocking a road and using a machete to wound a police officer. [98] [99] Iran Human Rights director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam called Shekari's trial a "show trial without any due process".
Iran executed a 34-year-old man accused of killing a security officer during unrest over the death of Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, state media said, the first known protest-related execution ...
Two journalists imprisoned in Iran following their coverage of the death of Mahsa Amini, which sparked nationwide protests in 2022, have been temporarily released on bail, according to state-run ...
Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy, was awarded the ...
Mahsa Amini (Persian: مهسا امینی; 21 September 1999 – 16 September 2022), also known as Jina Amini (Kurdish: ژینا ئەمینی, romanized: Jîna Emînî), was a Kurdish-Iranian woman whose arrest in Tehran for opposing mandatory hijab and subsequent death in police custody sparked a wave of protests throughout Iran. People and ...
Majidreza Rahnavard (Persian: مجیدرضا رهنورد; 16 June 1999 – 12 December 2022) was the first person executed in public for charges stemming from his involvement in the Mahsa Amini protests. [2] Rahnavard was accused of fatally stabbing two Basij militia guards during a protest in November 2022, leading to him being charged with ...