Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD/JEDDAH: A Tehran court has handed down up to 10 years of sentence to 400 people over their participation in protests after the death of Irani-Kurdish girl Mahsa Amini in police custody in September.
Tehran judiciary
Tehran’s judiciary chief Ali Alghasi-Mehr sentenced 160 people between five and 10 years in prison, 80 people for up to five years, and 160 people for up to two years.
Iran has been gripped by nearly three months of protests which officials describe as riots, since the death of Amini after her arrest for an alleged breach of the country’s police dress code for women.
Earlier, Majidreza Rahnavard and Mohsen Shekari, both in their 20s, were hanged on Monday and Thursday, respectively, on charges of moharebeh or “enmity against God.”
