While the international community's attention is diverted from Iranian uprising against the regime to a devastating war initiated by the Regime proxy on October 7th, the regime in Iran accelerated the crackdown of its dissidents. This Includes executions, imprisonments, raids on religious and national minorities, among other suppressive. measures.
As part of this diversion tactic, the unpopular regime in Iran has secretly executed a brave young man sentenced to death in connection with recent widespread anti-government protests, informed sources have told BBC Persian.
As this update was being prepared, Rights Group reported the hanging of a 17 years old boy by the brutal regime in Iran.
The rights groups said the execution of the 17 years boy marked another violation by the regime of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which defines a child as any person under the age of 18. Hamidreza Azari was executed yesterday in prison in the eastern town of Sabzevar in Razavi Khorasan province, the Norway-based Hengaw and Iran Human Rights (IHR) groups said in separate statements
The brave, Milad Zohrevand, 21, was put to death on Thursday morning at a prison in the western city of Hamadan, they said.
Human rights group Hengaw also said it had received reports of the execution.
The sources said he was denied a lawyer throughout his detention and trial.
If confirmed, Zohrevand would be the eighth protester to be executed after last year's rallies.
A recent report by UN Secretary General António Guterres warned that in the seven previous cases, information "indicated that the judicial proceedings did not fulfil the requirements for due process and a fair trial".
It added: "Access to adequate and timely legal representation was frequently denied, with reports of coerced confessions, which may have been obtained as a result of torture."
The protests against the regime in Iran erupted in September 2022 following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who was detained by morality police for allegedly wearing her hijab "improperly".
Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands detained in a violent crackdown by security forces, which have portrayed the protests as "riots".
Hengaw, which focuses on Iran's Kurdish ethnic minority, said in a statement that Zohrevand had also not been notified that his execution was imminent or granted a final meeting with his family
Regime in Iran is second only to China in the number of executions carried out annually.
The UN secretary general's report said the Regime inIran was carrying out executions "at an alarming rate", putting to death at least 684 people in the first seven months of the year. That is a 30% increase compared to the same period in 2022.