Iran Carries Out 1st Execution Over Anti-Hijab Protests: Report
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Anti-Hijab protests: Mohsen Shekari, a rioter who blocked (Tehran's) Sattar Khan Boulevard on September 25 and stabbed the left shoulder of a Basiji was executed on Thursday morning.
Iran hanged a man Thursday convicted of wounding a paramilitary force member, the judiciary said, the first known execution it has carried out over nearly three months of protests.
"Mohsen Shekari, a rioter who blocked Sattar Khan Street in Tehran on September 25 and wounded one of the security guards with a machete, was executed this morning," the judiciary's Mizan Online website said.
Demonstrations have swept Iran for nearly three months since Amini died after her arrest by the notorious morality police in Tehran for an alleged breach of the country's strict hijab dress code for women.
The authorities, who have struggled to contain the protests, describe them as "riots" fomented by Iran's arch foe the United States and its allies, including Britain and Israel.
