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Annalena Baerbock: »A regime that murders its own youth to intimidate its population has no future«
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"A regime that murders its own youth to intimidate its population has no future": After the execution of two other demonstrators in Iran, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) summoned the Iranian ambassador to the Federal Foreign Office again.
It should be made absolutely clear to him "that the brutal repression, the oppression and the terrorization of our own population and the two most recent executions will not go unnoticed," she said at a press conference with her Cypriot colleague Ioannis Kasoulides.
Kasoulides also said that this oppression was unacceptable.
It requires a reaction from the European Union.
Two more protesters were executed in Iran on Saturday.
The judiciary accused them of being responsible for the death of a security officer during anti-system protests in November.
An Iranian court has since passed further sentences against demonstrators.
Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kasemi and Sajed Jaghubi have been convicted of involvement in the deaths of three security forces during a demonstration in Isfahan province on November 16, the Iranian judicial authorities' news website Misan said.
They were sentenced to death in the first instance for »war against God«.
Two other defendants received prison sentences.
The trigger for the massive anti-government protests was the death of the 22-year-old Kurd Mahsa Amini after she was arrested by the moral police for violating the Islamic dress code.
Since then, hundreds of people have been killed in the protests and thousands more arrested.
The Iranian judiciary has imposed 17 death sentences so far.
mfh/dpa