Viral posts claiming 15,000 protesters in Iran have been sentenced to death are wrong. Iran has a history of using the death penalty for protesters, but so far, one protester of more than 14000 reported arrested since September has been sentenced to death.
: there was no indication such a mass execution was a certainty."This article and headline were updated to remove the reference to the Iranian Parliament voting for death sentences," the correction read."A majority of the parliament supported a letter to the judiciary calling for harsh punishments of protesters, which could include the death penalty."
Protests broke out across Iran after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died Sept. 16 while in police custody. The morality police had arrested Amini, a Kurdish-Iranian, for allegedly violating Iran's dress code by wearing her headscarf improperly. The Iranian government hasthat she died because of blows to her head, saying she died as a result of pre-existing medical conditions.
In early November, Javaid Rehman, special rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, said as many as 14,000 people had been arrested in Iran during the protests,Estimates from Human Rights Activists News Agency, a nonprofit advocacy organization, put the number closer to 16,000 as ofOn Nov. 6, 227 of Iran’s 290 parliamentarians called for the judiciary to consider severe punishments against the arrested protesters.
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