11 June 2022 :
Death sentence against man who killed 2 clerics.
A court in Iran has sentenced a man to death for killing 2 clerics and wounding a 3rd in a knife attack at a holy Shi'ite Muslim shrine in April, the judiciary said on Tuesday. "The revolutionary court sentenced him to death ... and his lawyer has appealed. The case has been sent to the Supreme Court," judiciary spokesperson Masoud Setayeshi told a news conference carried live on a state-run website. Officials said the attacker was a 21-year-old ethnic Uzbek from Afghanistan with radical Sunni views. He was arrested after the stabbings at Iran's largest Shi'ite Muslim religious complex in the city of Mashhad. There have been weeks of unrest in Iran after a jump in food prices and amid public anger with government leaders and powerful clerics over a deadly building collapse last month that was widely blamed on corruption and lax safety measures.
