The European Union declared itself “alarmed” on Saturday by new executions in Iran of people arrested and sentenced to death during the ongoing demonstrations in the Islamic republic, AFP reported, according to Agerpres.

The EU condemns “a new sign of violent suppression of demonstrations” and “again calls on the Iranian authorities to immediately stop the extremely shameful practice of issuing and executing death sentences against demonstrators”, as well as “immediately cancel the recent death sentences already passed in the context of demonstrations”, – the spokeswoman emphasized in the statement of the public block of Nabil Massrali.

Two men were executed in Iran on Saturday after they were found guilty of killing a paramilitary during protests that followed the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, after she was arrested by police for a dress code violation. A code of the Islamic Republic of Iran that specifically requires women to wear the veil in public.

“Mohammad Mahdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, the main perpetrators of the crime that led to the martyrdom of Ruhollah Ajamian, were hanged this morning,” Mizan Online reported, citing a member of the Basij militia linked to the Revolutionary Guards, the ideology of Iran’s army.

The first-instance court sentenced two men to death on December 4, the agency reports.

Since the start of the protest movement, justice has sentenced 14 people to death in connection with the demonstrations, four of whom have already been executed, according to an AFP count based on official information. Activists say dozens more face charges that carry the death penalty.

Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra announced on Saturday that the Dutch government would summon Iran’s ambassador to the Netherlands – for the second time in a month – to express deep concern over the execution of demonstrators, he told Reuters.

Meanwhile, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced on Saturday that he had appointed a new national police chief, General Ahmad Reza Radan, to replace outgoing General Hossein Ashtari.

“After the completion of General Ashtari’s mission, expressing my gratitude and satisfaction for his services, I appoint you as the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s police,” Khamenei said, addressing the new police chief.

Ahmad Reza Radan was blacklisted by the US Treasury Department for human rights abuses in 2010 following the controversial re-election of ultra-conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which sparked mass demonstrations that were suppressed by the EU-sanctioned authorities that same year.