Iran Executes Teen Protester for ‘Enmity Against God’

Iranian authorities hanged 17-year-old Amirhossein at dawn on Thursday after convicting him of ‘Moharebeh’ (Enmity Against God) and sentencing him to death on February 7.

The judiciary’s Mizan Online claimed he undermined national security for Israel and the US by infiltrating and destroying a military center to steal weapons during protests.

Amnesty International condemned the “arbitrary execution,” citing a grossly unfair trial concluded in under a month.Fears mount for dozens on death row, with four other men reportedly shifted to solitary confinement in the same facility.

Iran has executed a teenage musician for participating in the January protests. Amirhossein Hatami, 18, was hanged in the notorious Ghezel Hesar prison outside the capital yesterday, despite hopes he would be spared because of his age. The talented guitarist was arrested on January 8 and accused of committing arson against the feared Basij paramilitary’s base in Tehran during anti-regime protests.

He was held in solitary confinement for weeks, his long, curly black hair was shaved off, and he was paraded on national television being brutally interrogated.

Amirhossein was convicted of ‘Moharebeh’ (‘Enmity Against God’) and sentenced to death on February 7. On Thursday, the judiciary announced he had been ‘hanged at dawn’.