Iran Issues First Death Penalty For Protests Iran
Nearly two months of protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini prompted authorities to unleash a crackdown that led to the detention of thousands of people. Some have been charged with offenses that could carry the death penalty in a country that Amnesty International says is second only to China globally in the number of people it executes each year. The unnamed defendant was sentenced to death in a Tehran court for the offenses of “arsoning a government building, disturbing public order, assembling and conspiring to commit a crime against national security,” as well as “enemy of God and corruption on earth,” it said....