The Iranian government has just executed a man who was arrested during a protest related to the country’s ongoing anti-government protests.
Majidreza Rahnavard, aged 23, was said to have been executed by hanging from a construction crane in Mashhad on Monday.
It was revealed on Iran’s judiciary’s news website, that Rahnavard had been convicted of killing two members of the country’s Basij paramilitary force on November 17, 2022.
Meanwhile, the court had accused him of “waging war against God” and threatened to punish him accordingly and within a month of his arrest, he was charged, sentenced to death, and executed without any legal representation.
The judiciary’s news agency had published several pre-dawn photographs allegedly showing Rahnavard’s execution at an unknown location in the presence of a small group of people behind barricades.
Gholam Sadeghi, the chief justice of Khorasan Razavi had after Rahnavard’s execution, thanked the law enforcement agents for, in his words: “performing their legal duties in the briefest possible time”.
