Execution suggests ongoing power struggle within theocracy as it tries to contain demonstrations over death of Mahsa Amini. Iran WomanLifeFreedom
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The United Kingdom sanctioned Iran’s prosecutor-general, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, on Saturday night “with immediate effect” over Akbari’s execution.We apologize, but this video has failed to load.Iran’s Mizan news agency, associated with the country’s judiciary, announced Akbari’s hanging without saying when it happened. However, there were rumours he had been executed days earlier.
Iranian state television aired a highly edited video of Akbari discussing the allegations, footage that resembled other claimed confessions that activists have described as coerced confessions.The BBC Farsi-language service aired an audio message from Akbari on Wednesday, in which he described being tortured.Article content
“The charges against Ali Reza Akbari and his sentencing to execution were politically motivated. His execution would be unconscionable,” he said. “We are greatly disturbed by the reports that Mr. Akbari was drugged, tortured while in custody, interrogated for thousands of hours, and forced to make false confessions.”Article content
Iran’s government for months has been trying to allege — without offering evidence — that foreign countries have fomented the unrest gripping the Islamic Republic since the death of 22-year-old Amini in September after her detention by the morality police. Protesters say they are angry over the collapse of the economy, heavy-handed policing and the entrenched power of the country’s Islamic clergy.
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