This morning, two more protesters were executed by Iran’s regime.
Mizan, the state-run news agency affiliated with the judiciary of Iran’s regime, reported the execution of Mehrdad Mohammadinia and Ashkan Maleki, two individuals who had taken part in the January protests.
According to Mizan, the two citizens had been tried and sentenced to death on charges including setting fire to a center of repression run by the regime, damaging public property, and clashing with security forces. The judiciary of Iran’s regime claimed that the sentences had been upheld by the Supreme Court before being carried out.
The execution of Mehrdad Mohammadinia and Ashkan Maleki once again demonstrates that the regime’s judicial system operates not to deliver justice but to take revenge on protesters and instill fear in society. For years, issuing and carrying out death sentences against those detained during protests has been one of the regime’s tools for suppressing street demonstrations, silencing public dissent, and intimidating families seeking justice.
Mai Sato, the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, had previously warned about the increase in executions and said that Iran’s regime uses the death penalty as a tool to suppress protests, create fear in society, and silence dissenting voices.
