TEHRAN -- A court in the central Iranian city of Isfahan has issued initial rulings in the case of a deadly armed attack on three security forces during the recent protests and rioting in the country, sentencing three people to execution.
According to the judiciary, the court has convicted three of the six suspects to execution and the others to long-term jail sentences.
The three who were convicted to death for “fight against God”, after they “drew weapons” in the incident, are Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi Sheikh Shabani and Saeed Yaghoubi Kordsofla.
The hearings that led to the rulings dealt with an attack that martyred Mohsen Cheraghi, Mohsen Hamidi and Muhammad Karimi, all security forces.
The convicts can appeal against the court rulings.
Riots broke out in Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini. The 22-year-old fainted at a police station in Tehran on September 13 last year and was pronounced dead three days later in hospital.
An official report by Iran’s Legal
Medicine Organization concluded that Amini’s death was caused by illness rather than alleged blows to the head or other vital body organs.
Rioters went on the rampage, brutally attacking security officers and causing massive damage to public property as Western powers, especially the United States, provided support.
The European Union and some western countries have imposed sanctions on Iran over its approach toward the recent riots.