Death Sentence For Protester

A young Iranian protester has been sentenced to death by a regime judge for “disrupting social order”.

Photo shows Mahan Sadrat in court in Tehran, Iran, undated photo. Mahan Sadrat was sentenced to death disrupting the social order. (Newsflash)

Mahan Sadrat was found guilty by Judge Iman Afshari of Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court after he was arrested during the nationwide protests gripping Iran.

Mahan was charged with carrying a non-firearm weapon, according to independent Iranian media.

He was also accused of illegal assembly and collusion against Iran’s national security, according to the independent Iranian media outlet Iranwire.

Under local law, he could be shot, hanged, stoned to death or pushed from a great height.

Mahan – whose age was not reported – was also reportedly accused of burning a motorcycle and “destroying a private complainant’s phone”, as well as “causing intentional injury with a knife”.

Photo shows Mahan Sadrat in court in Tehran, Iran, undated photo. Mahan Sadrat was sentenced to death disrupting the social order. (Newsflash)

He reportedly said during his trial that he had only wanted to “gather in a place and chant slogans peacefully.”

He stated that he had no intention of fighting against the security forces but Judge Afshari accused him of “disrupting the social order”.

Iranian forces have been cracking down on waves of civil disorder following the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, from Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, who was on a visit to Tehran when she was arrested by morality police, accused of violating hijab rules on 13th September.

She was allegedly beaten while in custody and spent the following days in a coma in the hospital before succumbing in the ICU on 16th September.

Photo shows the judge who sentenced Mahan Sadrat in court in Tehran, Iran, undated photo. Mahan Sadrat was sentenced to death disrupting the social order. (Newsflash)

The clinic where she was treated said in a now-deleted social media post that she had been admitted brain-dead.

Alleged medical scans of her skull leaked by hackers showed that she had suffered bone fractures, haemorrhages, and brain oedema.

Independent Iranian media have claimed that Mahsa’s medical records showing her history of heart disease were faked by the Iranian government.

Numbers differ regarding how many people have been killed since the protests began.

The protests have so far claimed between 304 and 356 lives and injured at least 1,160, according to independent estimates.

It is also understood that over 14,000 people have so far been arrested.