This is not a trial for the killing of a protester, however, but the trial of a man accused of killing one of the Basiji militiamen brought in to suppress the protests.
The Fars news agency said the victim was Hossain Gholam-Kabiri, a young Basiji struck by the driver of a Pride car in the Sadatabad area of Tehran on June 15, 2009, three days after the elections.
The brief two-paragraph story carried by Fars called Gholam-Kabiri “the first martyr of the events of the sedition.” Sedition is the regime term for the movement opposing the announced election results.
The Fars story did not name the accused killer on trial or give any information about that person.
The opposition has said 80 protesters were killed in the protests that began just after the June 12 elections. The regime has not arrested anyone for any of those deaths. It has filed charges, however, against several men who worked in the Kahrizak detention center and are implicated in the beating deaths of four protesters there.
