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IRAN ISSUED ITS first death sentence linked to participation in “riots”, amid nationwide protests since the death of Mahsa Amini, the judiciary’s website said.
The accused was sentenced in a Tehran court to death for the crime of “setting fire to a government building, disturbing public order, assembly and conspiracy to commit a crime against national security, and an enemy of God and corruption on earth”, one of the most serious offences under Iranian law, it was reported.
Another court in Tehran sentenced five others to prison terms of between five to 10 years for “gathering and conspiring to commit crimes against national security and disturbing public order”.
All those convicted can appeal their sentence, judiciary website Mizan Online added.
Dozens of people, mainly demonstrators but also security personnel, have been killed during the protests, which the authorities have branded as “riots”.
Earlier toay, the judiciary said it had charged more than 750 people in three provinces for involvement in such incidents.
More than 2,000 people had already been charged, nearly half of them in the capital Tehran, since the demonstrations began in mid-September, according to judiciary figures.
Judicial chief for the southern province of Hormozgan, Mojtaba Ghahremani, said 164 people had been charged “after the recent riots”, Mizan Online ealier said.
They face accusations including “incitement to killing”, “harming security forces”, “propaganda against the regime” and “damaging public property”, the website said, adding that their trials would begin “from Thursday in the presence of their lawyers”.
Another 276 people were charged in the central province of Markazi, its judiciary chief Abdol-Mehdi Mousavi was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA.
However, 100 young people were released after signing pledges not to participate in any future “riots”, IRNA said.
In central Isfahan province, judicial chief Asadollah Jafari said 316 cases had been filed in connection with the recent strife.
Twelve have already gone to trial, the Tasnim news agency reported him as saying late Saturday.
Amini’s death on 16 September came days after her arrest by the morality police for an alleged breach of the country’s strict dress rules for women.
Authorities have denied claims by rights groups abroad that about 15,000 people have been detained in the ensuing unrest.
Iran also criticised a Friday meeting between French president Emmanuel Macron and opponents of the Islamic republic, calling Emmanuel Macron’s comments after the encounter “regrettable and shameful”.
Macron met with four prominent Iranian dissidents, all of them women.
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The Pasports should be done away with and it should be free to go to any country you want to go to.Just remember when Britain plundered the world they didn’t have a passport so let’s be fair.
Another nugget from Denise?!
Er, no. That’s just not going to work.
That would be an epic social and economic disaster Denise for all concerned.
I remember hearing passport control being described as fascism. There are some crazy opinions out there.
Strange how many of the people that i’ve met that have views like Denise live in very well to do areas, in houses that their parents own or they inherited.
Easy to push for hair brained ideas when it is others who’ll have to deal with the fall out. Denise’s world would mean a collapse in wages and the ending of workers rights as a never ending pool of cheap labour came in to being. Easy to be for that when it is a problem for others.
I suppose next you’ll want whatever you’re smoking be legalised.
Denise, have you ever posted a comment on the journal that hasn’t generated a coupla hundred red thumbs?
Nice airy fairy idea. But totally naive.
Denise, it’s amazing how you continually maintain the same naive rhetoric despite how consistently unpopular your comments are. Not being mean, but do you not see how poorly received your opinion is? Maybe it’s time to wind it down.
”Just remember when Britain plundered the world they didn’t have a passport so let’s be fair.”
dead on – and they were not the only Europeans to plunder .
This documentary is well worth a look . As for passports – we don’t need them in EU – so if all countries were a bit more fair and equal – did the pilgrim fathers have passports or the whites who plundered Australia – where now the Aborigines are unwanted in their own land .
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2013/08/201387113131914906.html
Jim, you and Denise should get a room.
Btw you contradict yourself, think about it.
”Denise’s world would mean a collapse in wages and the ending of workers rights as a never ending pool of cheap labour came in to being”
it would meant that in the Neo con capitalist society we live in now – there are of course other alternatives- as the Neo con system is designed to divide and conquer – and it works .
Stupidity kills
I think you mean desperation for a better life…
Yeah, that and stupidity
Egyptian problem not the rest of europe’s problem
Badly misses Gavin.
The grammar in that paragraph is terrible lol
I’m not trying to be funny but were they all blind? Surely they could see that they were not at the shore.
They hit a sandbar 15 metres from shore so they thought they could just walk in – I assume a lot of them could not swim – I can only imagine the panic – poor things.
Sure probably would have made their way to this grand little island of ours n claimed welfare so though.
They probably thought they had reached Ireland..
I bet if them poor people came to Ireland with a million euro on their credit cards they would have no problem geting in.So put that in your exaust pipe and drive on.
I don’t think they would be crammed into boats if they had a million Euro.
Ryanair at the very least to somewhere near Milan.
some inhuman comments on here .
this is a terrible tragedy and as Ryanair has been mentioned – it may be worth a look at C4 Dispatches at 8pm tomorrow for a documentary on that Airline .
Very sad
Dylan I must tell you I worked hard for my house and I am still working so don’t be a judge on some one you never met or know.I understand you have been brainwashed but look at the people as human beings like yourself.
Fair play to you.
There is a broad correlation between income and the view that you espoused. More often than not those in favour of no border control, passports etc are upper middle class.
Not going to indulge your bourgeoisie smugness re brainwashing.
You ask not to be judged yet you made a judgement on him. Grow up Denise.
Not so sure about abolishing border controls, but it is a little sad that in 2013 people die in this manner or are experiencing such a harsh reality that this is their only attempt or means of escape. We aren’t really as advanced or civilised as we seem to believe that we are
Denise, have you ever posted a comment on the journal that hasn’t generated a coupla hundred red thumbs?
How do you escape by diving into the sea?
Desperation. Go and give mammy or daddy back their iphone now, good child.
‘Three smugglers escaped by jumping into the sea, according to media reports.’
94 of 100 rescued, but the smugglers evade capture?
37 and using an Android handset.
How can you drown 15 meters from the shore? Literally a stones throw..
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