Against the background of the protests not subsiding the third month in Iran, the authorities of the country sentenced several participants in demonstrations to the highest degree of punishment – the death penalty.
BBC, citing a message from activists and representatives of the Iranian authorities, writes that over the past two days, at least seven participants in the shares have died in clashes with the Iranian police. Except for another six killed in the province of Khuzestan by unknown militants who opened shooting at the crowd of protesters, which was restrained by the police. In total, for two months of mass demonstrations in Iran, in clashes with the police and detachments of the Basija (half -nuclear militia), several hundred protesters were already killed.
Iranian authorities hope that the demonstrative executions of participants in protests will decide from their associates the desire to go into conflict with the state machine, BBC notes.
At the moment, observers are aware of the five sentences sentenced to death (all five decisions can be appealed).