CNN —
A mentally sick Iranian protester is about to be executed on Tuesday over the loss of life of an area official throughout mass protests in Iran in 2022, his lawyer, Amir Raessian, stated on Monday.
Writing in X, Raessian stated he had acquired discover from Tehran’s General Revolutionary Court that Mohammed Ghobadlou’s loss of life sentence can be carried out on January 23, 2024.
Gobadroo was sentenced to loss of life two years in the past by Iranian Judge Abolqasem Salavati, who was infamous for his harsh sentences in opposition to activists, journalists and political prisoners and was topic to US sanctions, CNN beforehand reported.
He has acquired two loss of life sentences in reference to the loss of life, based on Amnesty. The first loss of life sentence was handed down by a Revolutionary Court on November 16, 2022, for “corruption on earth”, and was upheld the next month by the Supreme Court, the rights group stated. The second loss of life sentence was handed down by a Tehran Provincial Criminal Court in late December 2022 for “homicide”, it added.
But Amnesty International criticised the loss of life sentence as following a “grossly unfair present trial which was marred by torture-induced ‘confessions’ and which did not order a rigorous psychological well being analysis regardless of (Govadorou’s) psychological incapacity”.
According to Amnesty International, Gobadroo had been below commentary in a psychiatric hospital since he was 15 for bipolar dysfunction. International regulation and requirements prohibit using the loss of life penalty in opposition to individuals with psychological problems, Amnesty International stated.
Iran noticed a surge in executions following the loss of life of Mahsa Amini, 22, in 2022 whereas within the custody of the so-called morality police, as the federal government cracked down on nationwide protests.