Iran is set to execute its first female protester and her husband as the nation’s crackdown over anti-regime protests in January continues
The country has already hanged seven people in connection with the protests, which were ruthlessly stamped out in a crackdown that left thousands de.ad and tens of thousands arrested.
Four more people were sentenced to death today by a Tehran Revolutionary Court presided over by the notorious judge Imam Afshari.
They were named as Bita Hemmati and her husband Mohammadreza Majidi-Asl, along with two other men, Behrouz Zamaninejad and Kourosh Zamaninejad, who lived in the same Tehran building as the married couple.
Hemmati is believed to be the first woman to be sentenced to de.ath over the protests.
The four were convicted of carrying out actions on behalf of the United States, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), and the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center said in separate statements.
They had been accused of throwing concrete blocks from a residential building onto security forces in the capital. It was not immediately clear when the verdict was issued.
The Abdorrahman Boroumand Center said it also believed that Hemmati was the woman who appeared in a video broadcast on state television in January, being personally interrogated by judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei.
‘The recording and broadcasting of forced confessions from defendants in an opaque process… constitutes a blatant violation of the defendant’s rights,’ it said.
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