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IRAN ISSUED ITS first death sentence linked to participation in “riots”, amid nationwide protests since the death of Mahsa Amini, the judiciary’s website said.
The accused was sentenced in a Tehran court to death for the crime of “setting fire to a government building, disturbing public order, assembly and conspiracy to commit a crime against national security, and an enemy of God and corruption on earth”, one of the most serious offences under Iranian law, it was reported.
Another court in Tehran sentenced five others to prison terms of between five to 10 years for “gathering and conspiring to commit crimes against national security and disturbing public order”.
All those convicted can appeal their sentence, judiciary website Mizan Online added.
Dozens of people, mainly demonstrators but also security personnel, have been killed during the protests, which the authorities have branded as “riots”.
Earlier toay, the judiciary said it had charged more than 750 people in three provinces for involvement in such incidents.
More than 2,000 people had already been charged, nearly half of them in the capital Tehran, since the demonstrations began in mid-September, according to judiciary figures.
Judicial chief for the southern province of Hormozgan, Mojtaba Ghahremani, said 164 people had been charged “after the recent riots”, Mizan Online ealier said.
They face accusations including “incitement to killing”, “harming security forces”, “propaganda against the regime” and “damaging public property”, the website said, adding that their trials would begin “from Thursday in the presence of their lawyers”.
Another 276 people were charged in the central province of Markazi, its judiciary chief Abdol-Mehdi Mousavi was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA.
However, 100 young people were released after signing pledges not to participate in any future “riots”, IRNA said.
In central Isfahan province, judicial chief Asadollah Jafari said 316 cases had been filed in connection with the recent strife.
Twelve have already gone to trial, the Tasnim news agency reported him as saying late Saturday.
Amini’s death on 16 September came days after her arrest by the morality police for an alleged breach of the country’s strict dress rules for women.
Authorities have denied claims by rights groups abroad that about 15,000 people have been detained in the ensuing unrest.
Iran also criticised a Friday meeting between French president Emmanuel Macron and opponents of the Islamic republic, calling Emmanuel Macron’s comments after the encounter “regrettable and shameful”.
Macron met with four prominent Iranian dissidents, all of them women.
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But will it be like the great snow of 1947 which my mother told me about as a child. Seemingly, it started snowing on the last Friday in February and continued into March,paralysing the country and closing roads and rail. Lakes froze over and they held dances and skating on the lakes, Snow drifts buried towns and villages and poor farm animals succumbed to the weather,schools closed and the snow stayed on the ground until May, I just remembered about ‘the great snow’ when I read the article above this morning,RIP mam.
Where did this come from??
@Tommy C: Well it didn’t come up from the Azores.
@Tommy C: The Sky ;)
@Tommy C: Don’t stand around asking questions just run and get the bread.
@Tommy C: sky.
@Tommy C: was forecast since early during the week! Not a surprise!
Now that’s more like it.
Proper feckin March weather.
@Skipper Mac: I’ll take sunshine and dryness over cold and wet any day. Bring back last week’s weather!
Come on Liverpool
@Rodger 5: is the weather shite there to?
@Rodger 5: any Irish men on that team
@Rodger 5: Up the Dubs
@Fergus O’Connor: up the dubs.
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But what about Global warming???
Cold weather with heavy snow in 1947??. Imagine!!. If we actually look back at weather fore asts over the years we most likely had all kinds of weather around this time. Governments will always try to fi d ways to take our hard earned cash through taxation. Ha
@Catherine Winston: How did you manage to shoehorn a gripe about taxes into the weather?
@Catherine Winston: Is your keyboard working .You’re firing a few blanks there Catherine.
@Catherine Winston: You should probably google climate change
@Catherine Winston: You should probably google climate change
@Catherine Winston: Did you not know that it was 21°c in the UK last week? In February. That’s summertime temperatures in February! And now it’s going to snow a week later and that seems normal to you!? In January in Australia, you could eat baked apples directly from the trees. And “when you look back at weather forecasts over the years”, you see a trend of global warming. “Most likely” isn’t a term scientists like to use.
Heavy snow falling in Kerry
@Darcy: ah shite heading 4 Kerry tommorow mon
@liam ward60: good luck with that
@liam ward60: Buy a few sliced pans and a pound of butter an stay under the covers.
Just started snowing in Clare!
@Sam Harms: oh feck sake Clare playing Limerick today
@John Waters: it’s raining too so not sticking
Glorious summer weather for two days, then back to the pits.
Global warming already working it’s charm I see!
@IrishFreeThinking: I can see the daffodils in my garden looking hopeless today.
@PC Principal:
Fair daffodils we weep to see
You haste away so soon
Your comment gives new meaning to this poetry.
@Honeybee: As a honeybee, your word is gospel in this regard.
It was already snowing before they issued the warning!
Global Warming, Climate Change ???????? Gibberish
Perfect all weather March weather.
March of many weathers,as the old saying goes.
Heavy snow in Tralee. Absolutely no warning of this in the last 24 hours. Yeah, climate change is nonsense!
FAKE weather reports from the journal again.very warm Sunday here in castlebar windows opened and @ 12 16 PM while its overcast here we have absolutely no rain or snow or sleet Yet
@liam ward60: Ah yeah. It’s not raining in your village therefore it’s all a lie.
@liam ward60: 2pm till 8am tomorrow. Starting in the south and working northwards.
@liam ward60: it’s bucketing down sleet and rain in the Burren
@An bhearna: Haha my village?
@David Walters: was also forecast yesterday sat turned out to be blue skys here till around six pm
But definitely not RED.
That’s mad. It’s warmer in Rome.
it’s so warm for the time of year.
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