INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Iran hanged a man on Thursday convicted of injuring a security guard with a knife and blocking a street in Tehran, the semi-official Tasnim
news agency said, the first such execution over recent anti-government unrest.Nationwide protests that erupted after the death of
22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini on Sept
16 represent one of the biggest challenges to the Islamic Republic since its establishment in 1979.Authorities have been cracking down on
the protests and on Monday, the Revolutionary Guards encouraged the judiciary to swiftly and decisively issue judgements against those
He admitted to striking a member of the Basij militia with a knife and to blocking a road with his motorbike alongside one of his
the news of the execution
the unrest on its foreign foes including the United States.Judiciary spokesman Masoud Setayeshi said on Tuesday that five people indicted in
executions had been rising in Iran
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has said the number this year reportedly surpassed 400 by September for
the first time in five years.Source - Reuters-Agencies
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