Iran has already executed two people involved in unrest that erupted in September after the custodial death of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by morality police for enforcing the Islamic republic’s strict dress code for women. Was.
Amnesty International has said Iranian authorities are seeking the death penalty for at least 26 other people, in what the campaign group has said is a push to intimidate protesters.
Iranian officials have blamed Iran’s foreign enemies and their agents for fueling the unrest.
“The Supreme Court has accepted the appeal of Sahand Noor Mohammadzadeh, one of the accused in the recent riots. His case has been sent for review to the same branch of the Revolutionary Court,” the judiciary’s Mizan news agency said on Twitter.
Last week, the Supreme Court accepted rapper Saman Syedi Yassin’s appeal against the death sentence, but confirmed the same sentence against protester Mohamed Kubdlu.
Earlier this month it suspended the death sentence of protester Mahan Sadrat, who was accused of several alleged crimes including stabbing a security officer and setting fire to a motorcycle.