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ran carried out its first known execution on Thursday over protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death, hanging a man convicted of blocking a street and wounding a paramilitary member.
Demonstrations have swept Iran for nearly three months since Amini died after her arrest by the “morality police” in Tehran for an alleged breach of the country's hijab dress code for women.
"Mohsen Shekari, a rioter who blocked Sattar Khan Street in Tehran on Sept. 25 and wounded one of the security guards with a machete, was executed this morning," the judiciary's Mizan Online website said.
The revolutionary court in Tehran heard Shekari had been arrested after striking the member of the Basij paramilitary force in the shoulder with the blade, an injury that required 13 stitches, Mizan Online said.
The judiciary said Shekari was found guilty of fighting and drawing a weapon "with the intention of killing, causing terror and disturbing the order and security of society."
It convicted him of "moharebeh" or waging "war against God" under Iran's Islamic sharia law, on Nov. 1, said Mizan, adding that he appealed the ruling but the supreme court upheld it on Nov. 20.
Wave of protests
