The federal authorities is constant to discover its choices after an Australian man was sentenced to dying in Iran.
Majid Kazemi was sentenced to dying on January 9 after the regime accused him of being concerned within the deaths of three authorities militia members throughout a protest rally.
The protest is considered one of many who have occurred in Tehran since 22-year-old scholar Mahsa Amini died in custody in September after being detained by the state’s morality police for allegedly violating Iran’s strict gown code for girls.
Requested on Tuesday if Australia had a accountability to intervene, Treasurer Jim Chalmers advised ABC TV he didn’t have an replace on the case.
However what was taking place in Iran, the place a number of individuals have lately been sentenced to dying within the wake of the protests, was “troubling”.
“We’ll do what we regularly do in terms of these types of instances, which is discover our choices and work by them in a thought of means,” he mentioned.
“If we have got an replace to supply then we’ll do this by a related minister.”
Iranian Australians are additionally offended about what occurred to Ms Amini and have been holding common weekend rallies decrying her destiny and criticizing the Iranian regime.
Final week, Australian Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John wrote to the Iranian Ambassador stating his “political sponsorship” of Mr Kazemi.
“Daily we get up to the information that extra Iranian freedom protesters have been sentenced to dying. This should finish,” he mentioned.
