Tehran,May 14, (dpa/GNA) – Iran has executed another person arrested during the mass protests, that rocked the country early this year.
The death sentence imposed on Mohammad Abbasi was carried out after the Supreme Court, upheld the verdict, the Mizan news agency, which is linked to the judiciary, reported on Wednesday.
Abbasi was accused of stabbing a police officer to death in a Tehran suburb in January, during the nationwide unrest that swept Iran.
According to the news agency of the US-based Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRANA), the execution took place at dawn.
Abbasi’s daughter is currently jailed at Tehran’s Evin prison, and the Supreme Court upheld a 25-year prison sentence for her in the same case, according to HRANA.
The agency also reported, citing a newspaper report, that a lawyer had been prevented from representing them.
GNA