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Iran to execute first female anti-regime protester Bita Hemmati (Image: X)
The Islamic Republic of Iran is preparing to execute Bita Hemmati, who will be the first female protester hanged in connection with the recent anti-regime uprising.
Hemmati is one of approximately 1,600 people sentenced to death by the regime last year. Protests that broke out across the country in January were brutally suppressed by government forces.
After a hasty trial, Hemmati, her husband Mohammadreza Majid Asl, 34, and two other men, Behrouz and Kourosh Zamaninezhad, were given the death penalty.
According to HRANA, a source close to the detainees’ families said: “Mohammadreza Majidi-Asl and Bita Hemmati are a couple living in Tehran, and Amir Hemmati is a relative of the two. Kourosh Zamaninejad and Behrouz Zamaninejad were living in the same residence and their arrests took place simultaneously.”
Iranian judge Iman Afshari claimed that people were “injured by forces at the scene” and that they used “explosives and unspecified weapons” during protests on January 8 and 9.
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The opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) announced in a press release on Tuesday that the regime has made a wide range of accusations against it. These allegations include using weapons and explosives, throwing concrete blocks, attending protest meetings and harming national security.
According to the Human Rights Activists News Agency, the four detainees were charged with “operational action against a hostile government and hostile groups of the United States.” They were also indicted on charges of “assembly and collusion against national security.”
“The Iranian Resistance once again calls on the United Nations, relevant international organizations and human rights defenders to take immediate action to save the lives of prisoners sentenced to death, especially political prisoners and those detained during the uprising,” NCRI said in a statement. he said.
Amir Hemmati, a relative of another defendant, was sentenced to approximately six years in prison. His conviction was for “meeting and collusion against national security” and “anti-regime propaganda”.
Two protesters dressed as prisoners with paint on them (Image: Getty)
All members of the group were arrested in Tehran, the scene of the most widespread national demonstrations against the Iranian government.
No execution date is currently planned. Iran has experienced a wide-ranging government crackdown following anti-regime demonstrations initially sparked by strikes by shopkeepers and traders in Tehran in late December.
In just two days, unrest quickly escalated in the capital and then snowballed into a nationwide wave of dissent; students and other groups joined the movement in January.
The crackdown resulted in the death or injury of thousands of protesters and the arrest or detention of tens of thousands more.
