The Islamic Republic regime executed 22-year-old Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini for the killing of a member of its paramilitary Basiji forces, during nationwide protests.
A trial was held for this case in mid-November and five people were sentenced to death and 11 others were sentenced to long prison terms.
The tribunals don’t allow those on trial to pick their own lawyers or even see the evidence against them. Amnesty International has said the trials “bore no resemblance to a meaningful judicial proceeding.”
Despite the global efforts to cancel the execution of these two protesters, the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Jan. 3, upheld the death sentence of Mohammad Mahdi Karmi and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, but ordered retrials for three others on death row in the same case….