An Iranian court had convicted a man of stabbing to death a Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) officer during protests in 2022. Iran has executed 10 people for violence against security personnel during demonstrations.
Protests were sparked by the death of Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini in police custody
Iran on Tuesday executed a man convicted of killing a Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) officer during protests in 2022.
“Gholamreza Rasaei was executed this morning [Tuesday] in Kermanshah prison,” the judiciary’s Mirza Online website said.
Kermanshah is a Kurdish-majority city in western Iran and is the capital of a province of the same name.
The judiciary’s Mirza website I’m that the defendant was convicted of “stabbing to death a Revolutionary Guards colonel during the illegal protests in November 2022.”
Colonel Nader Bayrami was in charge of the IRGC’s intelligence unity in the city of Sahneh in Kermanshah province, according to the Tasnim news agency.
Mirza cited the Kermanshah regional prosecutor as saying that the accused confessed to the crime and that the opinion of a forensic pathologist demonstrated that the knife used to kill Bayrami was owned by Rasaei.
The Kurdish rights group Hengaw reported that Rasaei was a Kurd and a member of a religious minority group.
