Iran has executed a second prisoner who was being held amid ongoing nationwide protests against the government.
Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, was hanged in public in the city of Mashhad on Monday morning, court news agency Mizan reported.
This is the second such execution in less than a week, after that of Mohsen Shekari on Thursday, who was accused of wounding a security guard with a machete and blocking a street in Tehran, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
Rahnavard had been found guilty of murdering two members of the security forces.
Amnesty International has criticized what it describes as “sham trials intended to intimidate those taking part in the popular uprising that has rocked Iran”.
Activists warn that at least a dozen people have already been sentenced to death in closed hearings.
State media released video of a man, whom they identified as Rahnavard, stabbing another man who had fallen into a parked motorcycle, then stabbing another person immediately after before fleeing.
The execution comes as protesters continue to take to the streets in defiance of the government and the threat of security forces, following the death of Mahsa Amini.
The 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman died while in the custody of Iranian morality police.
Meanwhile, the EU is close to agreeing a “very tough” set of sanctions against Iran, the bloc’s foreign policy chief said on Monday.
“We are going to approve a very tough set of penalties,” said Josep Borrell.
“(The EU) will take all possible measures to support young women and peaceful protesters.”
Iran has blamed the unrest on its foreign enemies as well as Kurdish separatistsbut his claims have been criticized by scholars.
