Iran is preparing to execute more protesters after a teen was put to death, as the regime scrambles to clamp down on political dissent.
Eighteen-year-old Amirhossein Hatami was among seven protesters and dissidents who human rights group Amnesty International had warned were at risk of imminent execution after four men were hanged in secret earlier this week.
The teen had been 'subjected to torture and other ill-treatment in detention, before being convicted in grossly unfair trials that relied on forced confessions,' the group claimed. He was found guilty of entering a restricted military site in Tehran, damaging and setting fire to the facility and attempting to seize weapons and ammunition.
Amnesty International has warned that four other protesters sentenced in the same case – Mohammad Amin Biglari, Ali Fahim, Abolfazl Salehi Siavashani and Shahin Vahedparast Kolo – will be executed soon, one each day. The two dissidents, Vahid Bani Amerian and Abolhassan Montazer, also remain at imminent risk since their transfer to an undisclosed location on 30 March.
Hatami's execution comes just days after four top anti-regime figures were killed, while another 15 political prisoners have been sentenced to death in recent days. Rights groups are becoming increasingly concerned that Tehran is intensifying executions against political detainees and protesters amid mounting military and international pressure.The National Council of Resistance of Iran, a political coalition formed by exiled dissidents, warned of a potential upcoming 'massacre' in the country's prisons as rattled leaders attempt to crush any notion of another mass uprising.
The brutal new clampdown comes as the US and Israel continue to hammer the country with bombs.It also comes weeks after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei - who oversaw the slaughter of tens of thousands of rioters in January - was wiped out in an airstrike, leaving his son Mojtaba in charge.
During a briefing on Wednesday, the NCRI's Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Mohammad Mohaddessin said Mr Mohaddessin warned that the killings of Pouya Ghobadi, Babak Alipour, Mohammad Taghavi Sangdehi and Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar - all members of the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran who were killed this week- were the product of the regime trying to 'exert control.' FULL ARTICLE AT: https://mol.im/a/15703821 via https://dailym.ai/android
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