Report: Iran Sentences Anti-Regime Protester to Death

People block an intersection during a protest to mark 40 days since the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, whose tragedy sparked Iran's biggest anti-government movement in over a decade, in Tehran, Iran, on Oct. 26, 2022, in this frame grab from video taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran. AP Photo

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Iran’s Revolutionary Court has sentenced an anti-regime protester to death, and handed down jail terms to five others, state media said Sunday, amid persistent unrest in the country.

The ruling likely marks the first death sentence in the trials of those arrested for participating in protests that have swept Iran over the past weeks demanding an end to clerical rule.