Iran Sentences 3 Demonstrators To Death
Just released by Reuters – a court has sentenced three people to death over street unrest that erupted after Iran’s disputed election in June and links to exiled opposition groups.
The Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), citing the head of the publication relations office of Tehran provincial court, did not identify those condemned, giving only their initials.
It was the first official statement of death sentences in connection with the huge opposition protests that followed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election.
According to Reuters, one of the initials given by ISNA matches that of Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani, whom the reformist Mowjcamp website on Thursday said had been sentenced to death.
“The execution sentences were handed down because of involvement in post-election developments and affiliation with the Iran monarchical association and the PMOI,” Iranian official, Zahid Bashiri-Rad, said.
The People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI) is an exiled opposition organization, seen by both Iran and the United States as a terrorist group.
