A man was sentenced to death in Iran on Sunday, the first such penalty handed down out of thousands of indictments and tens of thousands of arrests since the wave of protests that began on September 16.
The trigger was the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, 22, who had been arrested for not wearing her hijab properly, and early demonstrators included women who burned their headscarves publicly. But they have spilled over into wider calls for the overthrow of the regime, and violence, including against clerics.
The death penalty issued on Sunday was reported by an Iranian judicial news outlet. It said the man, who has not been named, had been accused of setting fire to a government building, disturbing public order, and
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