A mentally unwell Iranian protester might be executed on Tuesday over the dying of a neighborhood official throughout Iran’s mass protests in 2022, lawyer Amir Resian introduced on Monday.
Writing in X, Resian mentioned he had obtained notification from the Tehran General Revolutionary Court that Mohammad Ghobadr’s dying sentence can be carried out on January 23, 2024.
Ghobador was sentenced to dying by Iranian choose Abolkasem Salavati two years in the past. CNN beforehand reported that Saravati has been sanctioned by the United States for handing out notoriously harsh sentences in opposition to activists, journalists and political prisoners.
According to Amnesty International, he obtained two dying sentences in reference to the dying. The first dying sentence was handed down by a revolutionary court docket on November 16, 2022, for “corruption on earth” and was upheld by the Supreme Court the next month, based on human rights teams. It added that on the finish of December 2022, a legal court docket in Tehran province handed down a second dying sentence for “homicide”.
However, Amnesty International mentioned the dying sentence was “grossly unfair, regardless of (Gobadore’s) psychological sickness, marred by a ‘confession’ tainted by torture and a failure to order a rigorous psychological well being examination.” It was criticized as a “sham trial.”
Amnesty International mentioned Ghobador had been beneath the care of a psychiatric hospital because the age of 15 because of bipolar dysfunction. According to Amnesty International, worldwide legislation and requirements prohibit the usage of the dying penalty in opposition to mentally unwell individuals.
Iran noticed a spike in executions in 2022 as the federal government cracked down on nationwide protests following the dying of 22-year-old Martha Amini within the custody of the so-called morality police.
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