BBC alleges Iran having secretly executed person in connection to 2022 demonstration

Iran has reportedly executed Milad Zohrevand, a 21-year-old man sentenced to death in connection with anti-government protests in 2022.

As reported by the Persian outlet of the BBC, he was executed at a prison in Hamadan for being convicted of murdering a member of the Revolutionary Guards during a demonstration.

As no official public record of his execution exists yet, the publication deducts that he was executed in secret. Should this news be confirmed, it would make Zohrevand the eighth protester whose death sentence was realized since last year.

Zohrevand was allegedly denied a lawyer throughout his detention and trial. This execution follows a violent crackdown by Iranian security forces on anti-government protests in 2022, with reports of human rights abuses, including a lack of due process and fair trials, coerced confessions, and torture.