ALBAWABA - After being convicted of stabbing a police officer to death in 2022 nationwide protests, Iranian authorities executed a man earlier on Tuesday.
Judiciary online website Mizan reported that "Gholamreza Rassai, was executed this morning (Tuesday) in Kermanshah prison in western Iran for stabbing to death a police officer during the illegal protests in November 2022,".
Rasaei had been sentenced to death in October 2023 under Iranian laws for "retribution," according to Mizan, and the Supreme Court affirmed the conviction.
His death raises the total number of people executed on allegations of murder or other crimes against security officers during the demonstrations to 10.
In 2022, nationwide protests broke out following young Mahsa Amini's death after being arrested by the country's morality police for "not wearing the hijab properly" on Sept. 16, 2022, in Tehran. Amini spent 3 days in the hospital, doctors announced her death.
Amini came to the hospital with visible signs of torture which caused her severe damage that left her body almost paralyzed.
Thousands of Iranians, mostly women, took to the streets to protest what they consider police oppression and brutality against women, compulsory hijab, and their rights in Iran.
Hundreds of people were killed, including dozens of security officers, and hundreds more were detained in what the government called "riots provoked by foreigners".
