At least nine protesters have been executed since the hijab protests.
Mohamed Kabadlo/Screenshot, Twitter
Iran executed today (Tuesday) a man who was sentenced to death after his participation in the hijab protests in the country in 2022 - this was announced by the country's judiciary.
Mohammad Kabadlo, 23, was convicted of murder and "corruption on earth" after he allegedly ran over and killed a police officer during a demonstration near Tehran in September of that year.
According to human rights organizations, the trial that was conducted against him was unfair and it was alleged that he was tortured, while requests to consider his mental state were also rejected by the judicial system.
This is the ninth person to be executed for his involvement in the anti-regime protests that erupted following the death of the Kurdish young woman Mehsa Amini.
Amini died after being arrested by the morality police, claiming she wore her hijab "inappropriately".
At least four other protesters are believed to have been sentenced to death and 15 others are at risk of the death sentence.
The regime used a heavy hand to suppress the nationwide protests, in which hundreds of people were killed and thousands more were arrested.
The security forces described the demonstrations as "riots".
The "Mizan" news agency, run by the judiciary, reported that the young man was executed in the morning, after his sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court.
In videos posted on social media, members of his family, including his mother and aunt, were seen screaming in agony at the gates of a prison in Karaj, moments after he was hanged.
On the eve of the sentencing, his mother issued an emotional appeal to the policeman's family, asking them not to enforce the retributive sentence and to spare her son's life.
Throughout his arrest, she urged authorities to take into account that he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a child and had stopped taking his medication in the two months leading up to the protests.
His lawyer, Amir Razian, wrote on Instagram that the execution would be illegal and equivalent to "murder".
He claimed that in July the Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of Cabadello due to his mental condition, but the "Mizan" agency denied this claim and insisted that the court rejected his appeal on the matter twice.
Last year, Amnesty International said Cabadello was sentenced to two death sentences after "grossly unfair mock trials, tainted by 'confessions' extracted under torture and lacking rigorous mental evaluations despite his mental disability."
According to information received by the organization, the investigators denied her access to a lawyer during his arrest, and he was subjected to repeated beatings.
In addition, he was not given his medication in order to get a "confession" out of him.
He could not choose his own lawyer in his trial before a revolutionary court, which included two short hearings in October and November.
In his criminal trial held in December of that year, his lawyer was not allowed to examine the investigation materials.
Mahmoud Amiri-Mordam, director of the Norwegian-based Iran Human Rights Organization, condemned it as an "extrajudicial execution".
"The leader of the Islamic Republic Ali Khamenei and his judiciary must be held accountable for this crime. The international community must condemn it," he wrote in X.
After learning yesterday that his execution was imminent, imprisoned human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nargas Mohammadi called on Iranians to express solidarity with Kabadlo's family.
"The execution of Cabadello is an act of deliberate murder and a crime, and in the face of murder, silence is treason," she wrote in a post on a Threads account run by relatives.
"Don't leave Muhammad's family alone. Let's stand by them tonight. Everyone who can in any possible way, to shout: 'Don't execute!'"
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