Iranian cleric-against death sentences to protesters
2022.12.02 11:57
Iranian cleric-against death sentences to protesters
Budrigannews.com – According to a well-known Sunni pastor, it is unacceptable to accuse terrorists of the death penalty on Friday, because the recovered artifacts shocked the calm south of Iran during the third month of hostilities, albeit the brutal repression of the state.
Iranian human rights groups have released a video in which Belaji women, ethnic minorities, chant: “I will kill those who killed my brother,” and the police shoot at the demonstrators with firearms and tear gas.
Another unconfirmed video showed injured protesters being treated in a makeshift clinic in a mosque.
Molavi Abdulhamid, a well-known dissident of Sunni origin in the Shiite-ruled Islamic republic, said that strict fate should not accuse the protesters of “mohareb,” Islamic terminology meaning “war against God,” which leads to the death penalty. “A person should not be accused of moharism if he protests with sticks or stones, or just shouts.
According to him, Molava Abdolhamid, during prayers for Friday, spoke about moharebeh in the Koran, i.e., “when a group takes up arms, it takes a fight.”
According to videos on social networks, protests took place in Chabakh, Taftan and other parts of the poor district, as well as in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan Baluchistan, in which Molava Abdolhamid spoke.
Reuters could not confirm the footage. Javaid Rehman, the UN’s appointed independent expert on Iran, expressed concern on Tuesday that the authorities had launched a “campaign” to impose sentences against the protesters.
Rehman said that this month six people were sentenced, 21 people arrested during the protest face the death penalty, among them a woman accused of a “vague and widely disclosed criminal offense.” The protests that began after the death on September 16, when 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini was imprisoned, led to more than 300 deaths and 14 thousand arrests.
