Mohammed Mehdi Karami
Following the two new executions of regime opponents in Iran, Western governments and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights have denounced the country's governance and judiciary.
Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) wrote on Twitter: "Two more terrible fates that encourage us to further increase the pressure on Tehran with the EU." France's government described the executions as "outrageous" and called on the regime to " to listen to the Iranian people's "legitimate aspirations for freedom".
The Netherlands summoned the Iranian ambassador and appealed to the other EU member states to do the same.
The EU called the execution of the death sentences against Mohammed Mahdi Karami and Sejed Mohammed Hosseini on Saturday a "further sign of the violent suppression of the protests".
The US State Department condemned the executions "strongly" and spoke of "sham trials" against the two executed.
Canada called on Iran to end "senseless executions."
"Torture and Fake Precesses"
Karami and Hosseini were hanged on Saturday morning, according to the Iranian judiciary.
The two activists were found guilty in December of being "mainly responsible" for the death of a member of the paramilitary Basij militia during demonstrations in the city of Karaj.
This doubles the number of known executions in the course of the protests to four.
According to the Oslo-based organization Iran Human Rights (IHR), Karami was 22 years old.
According to the Oslo-based organization Hengaw, Hosseini was 39 years old.
The two men were just featured in a SPIEGEL article alongside other people who are at risk of execution or whose death sentences have already been announced.
Their stories stand for the many other, unknown victims of the regime.
You can read the text here.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights tweeted that the trials linked to the protests were based on “extorted confessions”.
It was "shocking that Iran continued to execute protesters despite the international outcry."
Activists had previously denounced the "unfair summary procedure".
It has "nothing in common with a meaningful court case," Amnesty International said.
Karami's father told Iranian media that a family lawyer was not given access to his son's files.
The lawyer wrote on Twitter that Karami had been denied a last meeting with the family and that he had given up food and water in protest.
IHR chief Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said both men were "subjected to torture and convicted after mock trials."
On Twitter, he called for "new and tougher sanctions against individuals and organizations" in Iran.
The head of the New York-based human rights organization Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), Hadi Ghaemi, accused the government in Tehran of using "executions and deadly force" to spread fear and terror among the civilian population, thereby threatening hopes for change. to destroy".
At least two more executions are imminent
The Iranian judiciary had already executed two young men in December who are said to have injured or killed security forces during protests.
So far, the courts have sentenced 14 demonstrators to death.
Four of them have already been executed, two more death sentences have been upheld by the Supreme Court, six convicts are awaiting retrial and two others can appeal.
Iran has been shaken by a wave of protests since the death of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini on September 16.
The 22-year-old died after being arrested by the vice squad for violating the strict Islamic dress code.
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