Iran Conducts First Known Execution of Prisoner Arrested During Protests

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : The Balochis make up about 2% of the Iranian population and are based mostly in the southeastern part of Iran where drugs from Afghanistan flow into the country.
42% : Iran last year conducted more than 300 executions, second only to China in the total number of executions.
39% : The executed man was convicted of blocking a street in Tehran by holding a "machete" and of injuring a member of the Basij paramilitary force, which has been deployed to suppress demonstrations, according to the Iranian judiciary's news outlet Mizan.
38% :More than 200 members of Iran's parliament in November called on the judiciary to quickly and decisively act against those charged with crimes during the protests, which included offenses carrying the death penalty.
37% : Eleven people are known to have been sentenced to death for alleged crimes committed during the protests, accused either of waging war on God or of "corruption on Earth," a charge that also carries the death penalty.
37% : Mr. Shekari was convicted in the Revolutionary Court of Tehran, which has been criticized by international human rights defenders for holding closed-door trials, in which defendants aren't able to see the evidence against them or allowed to pick their own lawyers.
33% : The protests in Iran erupted after the death in police custody of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, who was arrested for allegedly violating the country's strict Islamic dress code.
31% : It has also accused the Iranian legal system of relying "heavily on forced confessions extracted through torture and other forms of duress to prove guilt."Even before the protests began, Iranian authorities intensified their use of capital punishment, killing at least 251 people in the first six months of 2022, according to the independent, U.S.-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Centre for Human Rights in Iran and Amnesty International.
19% : The United Nations Human Rights Council has accused Iran of using the death penalty to squash protests.

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