According to the NGO Hrana, about 19,600 people have been detained since the outbreak of the riots.
The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has accepted a proposal by the country’s judiciary to “pardon or reduce the sentence of a significant number” of those accused and convicted for their participation in protests against deaths last year in custody. of the young Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini. In accordance with the terms stipulated by the Judiciary, those accused and convicted who “have not committed espionage, intentional homicide or injuries, or destruction of public property” would be deserving of said amnesty.
According to the NGO Hrana, about 19,600 people have been detained since the outbreak of the protests, of which 713 have already been sentenced by an Iranian court. At least four have been executed and 109 are threatened with the possibility of ending up on the gallows.
legitimacy crisis
For his part, one of Iran’s main opponents, Mir Hosein Mousavi, calls for a “fundamental change” in the country’s political system, which is facing a “crisis of legitimacy” with the protest movement over the death of Mahsa Amini. . “Iran and the Iranians need and are prepared for a fundamental change, the main lines of which are being drawn by the pure Women-Life-Freedom movement,” Mousavi said in a statement on his website and picked up by local media this Sunday.
Mousavi, 80 and a losing candidate in the 2009 presidential election, has been under house arrest in Tehran for 12 years with his wife Zahra Rahnavard but has not been charged. The opponent proposes that a “free and fair referendum on the need or not to write a new Constitution” be held, because the current “structure” of the system is “unsustainable.”
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