The people of Mahaabad protest the execution sentence of a local youth

Iran Press News: Translation by Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi

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Based on reports from the town of Mahaabad (Province of Kurdistan) thousands of locals starting from noon on Tuesday, Oct. 25th poured into the streets of this town, honking their car horns and shouting, expressed their rage at the execution sentence imposed on local youth, Mustafa Rasoulinia who was arrested in the summer clashes between the people of Kurdistan with the disciplinary forces of the regime. People rioted in Esteqlaal Square and the surrounding streets. People from other parts of town joined the crowd that had already gathered at Hasanzadeh School and took the protest from neighborhood to neighborhood. The regime's disciplinary forces, which had surrounded the town at that point, began to launch tear gas into the crowds, attacking the protestors. The protestors chanted anti-regime slogans in unison and loudly.

On Wednesday the some unrest continued and the town was half shut down.

The regime has blamed the murder of one of the regime's disciplinary officers on the Mahaabadi youth and therefore sentenced him to death. The young man rejected the charges during his trial and said that he had been severely tortured by his captors and was pressured into making a confession.