An Iranian protester with a mental health condition has been executed over the death of a local official during mass demonstrations that rocked the country in 2022, the Iranian judiciary\u2019s news agency reported on Tuesday. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe death sentence of Mohammad Ghobadlou for the crime of intentional murder of Farid Karampour Hassanvand was executed this morning after 487 days of judicial review of the case,\u201d the Mizan news agency said. <\/p>\n
Iranian authorities allege Ghobadlou ran over the official during a protest in Robat Karim, Tehran province, in September 2022, according to rights group Amnesty International. <\/p>\n
Ghobadlou received two death sentences \u2013 one for \u201ccorruption on Earth,\u201d issued by a Revolutionary Court and upheld by the Supreme Court, and one for murder, issued by a criminal court in Tehran province, according to Amnesty. <\/p>\n
Mizan reported that the death sentence for \u201ccorruption on Earth\u201d was suspended earlier this month until the intentional murder charge was investigated. <\/p>\n
Ghobadlou\u2019s lawyer Amir Raesian said he was not notified about a ruling regarding his client, and called on Mizan to release more information on the execution. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf Mizan news agency is telling the truth, it should announce the number and date of issuance of this verdict,\u201d Raesian said in a statement on X. <\/p>\n
Amnesty has criticized the\u00a0death sentences for following what it described as \u201cgrossly unfair sham trials, marred by torture-tainted \u2018confessions\u2019 and failure to order rigorous mental health assessments despite (Ghobadlou\u2019s) mental disability.\u201d <\/p>\n
Ghobadlou had been under the supervision of a psychiatric hospital for bipolar disorder since the age of 15, Amnesty said. International law and standards prohibit using the death penalty against people with mental disabilities, according to the rights group. <\/p>\n
Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the director of Norway-based Iranian human rights group Iran Human Rights (IHR), called Ghobadlou\u2019s execution an \u201cextrajudicial killing.\u201d <\/p>\n
On X, formerly Twitter, he wrote that \u201cthe Islamic Republic\u2019s leader Ali Khamenei and his Judiciary must be held accountable for this crime. This execution must be met with strong international condemnations!\u201d <\/p>\n
At least eight protesters are known to have been executed in connection to nationwide demonstrations over the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022. <\/p>\n
Amini, a 22-year-old woman, died in the custody of Iran\u2019s morality police after being arrested for allegedly not wearing her headscarf properly. <\/p>\n
Protests spread like wildfire in the following weeks \u2013 which Iranian authorities responded to with brute force, mass arrests and\u00a0hasty sham trials, drawing sharp global condemnation and\u00a0sanctions\u00a0from the US. <\/p>\n
More than 300 people were killed in the months-long protests, including more than 40 children,\u00a0the United Nations said. US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) placed the number of dead at more than 500, including 70 children. Thousands were arrested across the country,\u00a0the UN said in a\u00a0report last year, citing research from its Human Rights Committee. <\/p>\n\n
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