Unidentified defendants were convicted of involvement in the death of a member of the Basij paramilitary organization last month
Iran’s judiciary announced Tuesday that it had sentenced five defendants to death and 11 others, including three minors, to prison in the killing of a paramilitary member, widening its use of capital punishment and lengthy jail sentences against antigovernment protesters.
The unidentified defendants were convicted of involvement in the death of Ruhollah Ajamian, a member of Iran’s elite paramilitary Basij unit who is said to have been killed last month in a Tehran suburb, according to Masoud Setayeshi, a spokesman for the judiciary.
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