• He rejected the allegations saying he was forced to admit his guilt and went on a hunger strike two weeks ago
Iran's Supreme Court on Saturday accepted a protester's appeal against the death penalty for allegedly damaging public property during anti-government protests and sent his case back for review.
Nour Mohammadzadeh, 25, was arrested on 4 October, and two months later charged with 'waging war against God' in Tehran for allegedly trying to break down a highway guardrail and setting garbage bins on fire The death sentence was passed.
He rejected the allegations, saying that he was forced to confess his crime and went on hunger strike two weeks ago.
Iran has already executed two people involved in unrest that erupted in September following the death in custody of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by morality police for enforcing the Islamic republic's strict dress code for women. I went.
Amnesty International has said Iranian authorities are seeking the death penalty for at least 26 other people, in what the campaign group has said is a push to intimidate protesters.
Iranian officials have blamed Iran's foreign enemies and their agents for fueling the unrest.
“The Supreme Court has accepted the appeal of Sahand Noor Mohammadzadeh, one of the accused in the recent riots. His case has been sent for review to the same branch of the Revolutionary Court," the judiciary's Mizan news agency said on Twitter.
Last week, the Supreme Court accepted rapper Saman Syedi Yassin's appeal against the death sentence, but confirmed the same sentence against protester Mohamed Kubdlu.
Earlier this month it suspended the death sentence of protester Mahan Sadrat, who was accused of several alleged crimes including stabbing a security officer and setting fire to a motorcycle.
Iran executed two protesters earlier this month: Mohsen Shekhri, 23, who was accused in September of blocking a main road and stabbing a member of the paramilitary Basij force; and 23-year-old Majid Raza Rahnaward, who was accused of stabbing two Basij members to death.
Rahnvard was publicly hanged from a construction crane.
Rights group HRANA said that, as of Friday, 508 protesters had been killed, including 69 minors. It said 66 members of the security forces were also killed. 19,199 protesters are believed to have been arrested.
Iranian officials have said that more than 300 lives were lost in the unrest, including members of the security forces.
