TEHRAN, June 07 (AFP): An Iranian court sentenced a man to death over an April shrine attack in the Shiite holy city of Mashhad that killed two clerics, the judiciary said on Tuesday.
The April 5 attack on the Imam Reza shrine, where pilgrims had gathered to worship during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, killed two clerics and injured a third.
Local media at the time identified the assailant as Abdolatif Moradi, a 21-year-old Sunni extremist and ethnic Uzbek who had entered Iran illegally via the Pakistani border a year earlier.
"The person who stabbed two clerics in the Imam Reza shrine at Mashhad was sentenced to death," judiciary spokesman Massoud Setayeshi told a news conference in the capital Tehran.
The defence has appealed the verdict at the Supreme Court, which will review the case, the spokesman added.
Iran sentences man to death over Shiite shrine attack
FE Team | Published: June 07, 2022 21:32:55
Iran sentences man to death over Shiite shrine attack
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