Demonstrations: almost 300 individuals charged

Greater than 300 individuals have been charged in Tehran in reference to protests over the dying of Mahsa Amini. A few of them face the dying penalty, authorities mentioned on Monday.

Iran has been going through a wave of protests for the reason that dying of this 22-year-old Iranian Kurd on September 16, arrested three days earlier in Tehran by morality police who accused her of breaking the nation’s strict costume code.

The violence left dozens useless, most of them demonstrators, but in addition members of the police.

A whole lot of protesters had been arrested. Authorities haven’t supplied an general determine for arrests since September 16.

In response to Tehran prosecutor Ali Salehi, quoted by the Judicial Authority web site Mizan On-line, 315 persons are accused of ‘gathering and collusion in opposition to the safety of the nation’, ‘propaganda in opposition to’ energy and ‘unrest within the ‘public order’.

Loss of life sentence

“4 rioters have been charged with the cost of moharebeh (‘enemy of God’ in Persian)”, an accusation punishable by dying, Ali Salehi added.

They’re additionally accused of ‘utilizing a weapon to terrorize society and the individuals, injuring safety officers, setting fireplace to and destroying public and authorities property, with the target of attacking the sacred system of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he mentioned.

‘The trials of those that have dedicated crimes (…) and those that are affiliated with anti-revolutionary brokers inside and outdoors (Iran) and foreigners will likely be held in accordance with the regulation. They are going to be punished,” Judicial Authority chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei was quoted as saying by Mizan On-line.

/ATS