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Iran executes 1 more prisoner detained over 2022 protests
Updated On: 24 January, 2024 06:47 AM IST | Dubai | Agencies
The TV report said the 23-year-old Qobadlu, who had confessed to his crime, had access to a lawyer during the trial
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Iran on Tuesday hanged another prisoner over crimes committed during nationwide protests that erupted in 2022 following the death of a young woman detained for improperly wearing her headscarf. According to a report on state television, Mohammad Qobadlu was executed after being sentenced for killing a policeman and injuring five others after he ran them over in his car during a rally in the town of Parand, near the capital of Tehran.
The TV report said the 23-year-old Qobadlu, who had confessed to his crime, had access to a lawyer during the trial. Qobadly had appealed his death sentence, handed down by a lower court, but the Supreme Court later upheld the original verdict. Qobadlu’s execution was the ninth reported by the authorities since the protests started in the fall of 2022.
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