IRAN - Majid Kazemi, Saeed Yaghoubi and Saleh Mirhashmi

IRAN - Three More Death Sentences Over Protests

January 9, 2023:

Three More Death Sentences Over Protests
In a legal case over protests in Isfahan, Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi, and Saeed Yaghoubi were sentenced to death and a total of 30 years in prison on several charges, including “enmity against God” (Moharebeh). Also, two other co-defendants, football player Amir Nasr Azadani and Soheil Jahangiri, were sentenced to 26 years and 2 years, respectively.
An Iranian court has sentenced to death three men allegedly involved in the killing of three members of the security forces, the judiciary says, bringing to at least 17 the number of people handed capital punishment in connection with nearly three months of nationwide protests.
Saleh Mirhashmi Baltaghi, son of Seyed Kazem, Majid Kazemi Sheikh Shabani, son of Mohammad Reza, and Saeed Yaqoubi Kurdsafli, son of Karam Ali.
They were sentenced to death and sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of membership and cooperation with Mujahideen.
Amir Nasr-Azadani, the son of Mohammad, a football player, was sentenced to 5 years in prison on the charge of “membership in illegal groups with the intention of disrupting the security of the country”, on the charge of “gathering and collusion” and to 16 years in prison for “assisting in Moharebeh”.
Soheil Jahangiri, son of Abdul Hossein, was sentenced to 2 years in prison for the charge of “gathering and collusion”.
An acquittal was issued for Jaber Mirhashmi, other detainees in this case, the judiciary’s Mizan Online news website reported on January 9.
The 26-year-old professional footballer Amir Nasr-Azadani should serve his 3 sentences concurrently, meaning he would be behind bars for 16 years, Mizan said.
It said all the sentences announced can be appealed before the supreme court.
The latest sentences were announced two days after the Islamic Republic executed two men, Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, for the November killing of a paramilitary force member in Karaj, west of Tehran.

https://english.shabtabnews.com/2023/01/09/three-more-iranians-sentenced-to-death-over-protests/
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202301093716
https://www.en-hrana.org/three-death-sentences-and-58-years-imprisonment-for-five-protestors/
https://en.iranhrs.org/three-prisoners-sentenced-to-death-in-isfahan/