My client’s death sentence has 10 fundamental flaws

The defense lawyer for political prisoner Mahmoud Mehrabi, who was sentenced to death, said he had filed and issued an appeal request for his client.

Mahmoud Mehrabi’s defense lawyer Babak Fasani wrote on the X social network on Monday (Hodad 7) that there were “more than 10 fundamental flaws in the issued judgment” and that each of these flaws “was solely due to providing convincing and documented reasons to the Supreme Court” for violating the death penalty.

According to the lawyer, the 10 cases mentioned above are mentioned “on numerous pages of the defense bill.”

The Fifth Branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Isfahan sentenced protester Mahmoud Mehrabi to “death penalty” for his activities in cyberspace.

In the past few days, a group of UN experts, including the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Javed Rahman, the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel punishments, Jill Edwards, and the Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, Maurice Tidball-Baines, called in a statement for the immediate cancellation of the death penalty against Mahmoud Mehrabi and for the Government of the Islamic Republic to stop imposing the death penalty on people for expressing their opinions.

Meanwhile, the Islamic Republic’s judiciary’s media arm, Meezan News Agency, in a report rejected the death sentence against Mahmoud Mehrabi “for his activities in cyberspace,” but explained in the same report that Mehrabi’s case was based on his social media posts that included “teachings on the use of homemade weapons, calls for the destruction of public property, inciting people to war and killing, and insults to the sacred.”

The sentenced protester’s sister, Hajar Mehrabi, previously told VOA that Mahmoud Mehrabi was in Vienna but “returned to Iran” and “stood empty-handed and resisted” from becoming the “voice of the people.”

He said Mahmoud Mehrabi had been “tortured” in prison for “more than 16 months”, adding: “My brother is one of the thousands of prisoners who are anonymous, oppressed and have no voice. “Don’t discriminate against political prisoners, I want you to be their voice. We have no one but each other.”