November 13 (EUROPA PRESS) –
A revolutionary court in Tehran has sentenced to death this Sunday a detainee for burning a government headquarters during the wave of protests against the death in custody of the young Mahsa Amini on September 16, in what is the first sentence of this caliber since the beginning of the demonstrations.
The official IRNA news agency, which does not identify the convicted person, points out that the sentence was handed down in relation to charges of committing a crime against national security and “corruption on earth”, the latter crime punishable by execution. No further details are known about the case.
The verdict, however, can still be appealed.
Likewise, the court has also sentenced five people to between five and ten years in prison for disturbing public order.
This sentence is made known after the Iranian government denied a request by more than 200 deputies to impose tougher punishments on the detained participants.
The NGO HRANA estimates that more than 15,000 people have gone into police custody, temporarily or until now, since the outbreak of the protests, which have cost the lives of more than 330 people, including fifty security personnel.
More than 2,000 people have already been charged, almost half of them in the capital Tehran, since the demonstrations began, according to figures from the Iranian judiciary.
