Two Iranians were hanged on Saturday, bringing to four the executions linked to the uprising that has challenged power since September.
They were accused of having killed a “bassij” militiaman, the armed wing of the mullahs, therefore of being
“enemies of God”.
Those who had preceded them to the gallows had been entitled to the same label for simple degradations on the public highway.
"In what country do you take someone's life for setting fire to a garbage can?"
Lamented the mother of young rapper Saman Yasin.
In Iran:
"To prove that it did not assassinate Mahsa Amini", who
died at the age of 22 at the hands of the morality police on the pretext of an ill-fitting veil,
"the regime has already killed at least 500 other people" ,
points Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani in
The New Republic
.
Those who arbitrarily designate these
“enemies of God”,
after mock trials and on the basis of “confessions” obtained under torture, are the worst enemies of their own people.
They cling to their absolute, corrupt, irreformable power...
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