Even though they were introduced to UN representatives who they informed of the threats to their lives if they were returned to Iran, the Turkish government handed them over to Iranian authorities.
[6] A court in February 2020 sentenced these men to an execution under the claim of "being an accomplice to destruction of public property in order to defy the Islamic Republic regime".
[6] The spokesperson for the Judicial system of Iran has claimed that these men had sent the videos of their public looting to foreign media "to boast", and thus "have given the proper evidence for their condemnation by their own hands".
[2] Emadeddin Baghi, on his personal Twitter account, stated that: As someone who has been writing against the death penalty for 30 years and has been previously convicted by the Judicial system of Iran for this reason, while regretting the recent executions and being pleased with the suspension of another person's execution sentence in Arak, I am aware of 3 convicts of 2019–2020 Iranian protests and the Judicial System has been against it from the start.
Despite the fact that their request for these lawyers were denied, the original public defenders were still excused; yet the lawsuit from the Judicial System has been issued with their names on it.
[14] On July 15, 2020, Fars News Agency ran a story that claimed Ebrahim Raisi, head of Judicial system of Iran, has issued a retrial based on the article 477 of criminal procedure.
[16] Moments later, Fars News Agency also denied the story and ran an amendment that according to the criminal procedure, the chance for a retrial is on the shoulder of the attorneys.
He added that the only one of the accused that had an attorney present was Amir Hossein Moradi (which he himself represented), and even he wasn't given the necessary clearance to view the case files.
In the news story they claimed that "captured footage on social media and received by Iran International shows that on July 16, 2020, there were added security on standby in Valiasr Street and around Teatr-e Shahr Metro Station".
Though Mohammad Moased, Iranian Journalist, has said in a tweet that:This text message who is claimed to be sent to users that support #StopExecutionsInIran is fake.
[23] According to Deutsche Welle, on July 17, 2020, there were more security measures and more riot police present all around the country, in cities such as Tehran, Tabriz, Rasht, Shiraz and many more; and there has also been reports of arresting people on the grounds of "causing unrest".
In Mashhad, Imam Reza Army has stated that they have identified and apprehended a number of "key players of defiant groups" that were "in addition to working with anti-Islamic Republic foreign channels, were calling for people to gather in the streets and protest".
[28] On July 16, 2020, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a statement, in which they expressed their support of the hashtag and demanded that Ebrahim Raisi, the head of Judicial system of Iran, stop the executions of the three accused.