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  • Jan 31st, 2010
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Iran put on trial on Saturday 16 anti-government protesters, two of them women, who were arrested on the Shiite mourning day of Ashura, the official IRNA news agency reported. Five of the defendants are accused of being mohareb (enemies of God) and corrupt on earth, both crimes punishable by death under the Iranian legal system, which is based on Islamic Shariah law, IRNA said.

The rest are accused of "gathering and conspiring against security, propaganda against the system and seeking to harm security by inciting unrest and riot," it said. IRNA said the those accused of being mohareb include two who have ties with and were supporting "the hypocrites", the term the regime uses to describe the outlawed rebel People's Mujahedeen.

It said the other 11 accused include one Bahai, a student activist and one having "communist leanings who also gave interviews to foreign radios." The trial comes after Iran drew international condemnation by executing two dissidents on Thursday.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2010


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