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By: The Opinion Updated 12 Dec 2022, 12 : 56 pm EST
The European Union condemned this Thursday “in the strongest possible terms” the execution in Iran of Mohsen Shekari, the first prisoner sentenced to death for participating in the protests that began in September in the country and urged Tehran to refrain from applying the death penalty.
After the execution of Shekari, of 54 years, the EU demanded that the Iranian authorities “follow a coherent policy towards the total abolition of the death penalty”, said the spokesman for the European External Action Service (EEAS), Peter Stano.
In addition, the EU called for them to “refrain from the unacceptable practice of using coerced and published confessions as a basis for establishing the facts of alleged crimes.”
“It is imperative that the authorities go aníes respect the right to due process of the accused persons and guarantee that persons who are under any form of detention or imprisonment are not subject to any type of mistreatment”, Stano added. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which the country is a party.
Mohsen Shekari the first executed
Mohsen Shekari was executed early this Thursday morning after to be sentenced to death on 23 November for wounding a basiji – Islamic militant – with a knife, blocking a street and creating terror in Tehran, reported the Mizan agency of the Judiciary.
All these crimes carried the sentence to “war against god”, which is punishable by death, as has been the case in this case.
Mizan indicated that the executed man confessed during the trial that he had received “payments” for attacking to agents of the law and that for this reason he stabbed the militiaman, who needed 12 stitches after attack.
Shekari is the first protester to be executed for her participation in the protests that have shaken Iran since the death of Mahsa Amini in mid-September, after she was arrested by the Morality Police for wearing the Islamic headscarf incorrectly.
The riots began due to the death of the young Kurdish woman from 23 years, but they have evolved and now the protesters call for the end of the Islamic Republic founded by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomein í at 2015.
The judicial authorities have sentenced to death 11 up to now people for their participation in the mobilizations and an indeterminate number to prison sentences.
Amnesty International has denounced that at least 54 of the 2,000 accused by the protests are face to death sentences.
In the almost three months of protests have killed more than 400 people and at least 22,000 have been detained, according to the Oslo-based NGO Iran Human Rights.
With information from Efe.
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