Iran’s Supreme Court has accepted appeals by two protesters sentenced to death because of flaws in the investigation of their cases, the country’s judiciary said on Saturday.
“The Supreme Court has accepted the appeals of Mohammad Kubdlu and Saman Saidi Yasin, accused of the recent riots,” the Mizan news agency of the judiciary reported.
“Due to the shortcomings of the research, the Supreme Court has remanded them to the same court for re-examination.”
Nationwide unrest broke out in mid-September following the custodial death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman who was arrested by morality police enforcing the Islamic republic’s mandatory dress code laws.
Iran executed two protesters earlier this month: Mohsen Shekhri, 23, was accused of blocking a main road in September and stabbing a member of the paramilitary Basij force. 23-year-old Majid Raza Rahnward, who was accused of stabbing two Basij members to death, was publicly hanged from a construction crane.