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Woman protester sentenced to death in Iran

A female protester arrested in Ashura protests in Iran last year hasbeen sentenced to death, Iranian resistance websites report.

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A female protester arrested in the Ashura protests in Iran last year has been sentenced to death, Iranian resistance websites report.

Motahareh Bahrami was arrested at the protests more than four months ago, along with her husband, son and two family friends.

Bahrami was charged with having links to the People's Mujahedin of Iran, an organisation designated by Iran, the US and some other nations as a terrorist group.

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She is being held in the women's block of the Evin Prison in northwestern Tehran.

The case is being reviewed after Bahrami appealed the sentence.

The December 27 protests were held on Ashura, a holy day on the Shi'ite calendar. The day is symbolically known as a day of justice.

Anti-government protesters across Iran demonstrated against June's election results, which controversially saw Mahmoud Ahmadinejad return to power.

Several protesters were reportedly killed in the December protests, including the nephew of Iran's main opposition figure Mir Hossein Mousavi.

Rights group Amnesty International estimates nearly 390 men and women were executed in Iran in 2009. Several thousand have been executed since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.


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