Iran has hanged three people who were accused of deadly violence during the country’s last year’s widespread anti-government rallies.
In Isfahan, which is located about 210 miles south of Tehran, Saeed Yaqoubi, 37, Saleh Mirhashemi, 36, and Majid Kazemi, 30, were charged with the murder of three persons in November of last year. They were put to death on Friday morning, according to Mizan News Agency.
According to the Human Rights Activists News Agency, the execution took conducted at Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan despite strong criticism and condemnation from human rights organisations in Iran and abroad.
Following torture and unfair trials, human rights organisations assert that Iranian officials coerced the three men into making confessions.
The men were found guilty “after grossly unfair trials on charges of ‘enmity against God’ (moharebeh), which authorities have alleged is linked to the death of three law enforcement agents'”—one police officer and two Basij paramilitary group members—in Isfahan, which Human Rights Watch described as part of a “terrifying trend.”
“The prosecution relied on forced ‘confessions,’ and the indictment was riddled with irregularities that reveal this was a politically motivated case,” executive director, Center for Human Rights Hadi Ghaemi in Iran, a New York-based nonprofit, said in a statement.
The execution that was about to take place, according to Robert Malley, the U.S. special representative to Iran, was “an affront to the human rights and basic dignity of all Iranians [which] shows the regime has learned nothing from the protests.”
In the midst of widespread protests brought on by the death of an Iranian Kurdish woman in September, the men were arrested in November.
After being arrested by Iran’s morality police for allegedly breaking the nation’s dress code, Mahsa Amini, 22, dies. According to American officials, she was charged with “improperly wearing a hijab in compliance with religiously grounded laws.”
Her passing provoked protests across Iran, which, according to Amnesty International, were greeted with a “deadly crackdown.”
During the protests, which are thought to have resulted in the deaths of over 500 citizens and security forces, some 19,000 people were arrested.
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