Iran faces condemnation, more protests after execution

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54% : This handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency shows students listening to Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi at Tehran University during student day celebrations on December 7It posted harrowing footage of what it said was the moment his family learnt the news outside their home in Tehran, with a woman doubled up in pain and grief, repeatedly screaming the name "Mohsen!"
48% : According to rights group Amnesty International, Iran executes more people annually than any nation other than China.
43% : "The threat of execution will not suffocate the will for freedom," she tweeted, criticising a "perfidious summary trial".
42% : A protestor with red tears painted on her face during a rally in support of the demonstrations in Iran, in Toulouse, south-western France, on December 3"His execution exposes the inhumanity of Iran's so-called justice system" where many others face "the same fate", it added.
39% : Mohsen Shekari, 23, was hanged Thursday after being convicted for blocking a street and wounding a paramilitary early on in the protests, after a legal process denounced as a show trial by rights groupsIran faced international condemnation Friday after carrying out its first known execution over protests that have shaken the regime for nearly three months, leading to calls for even more demonstrations.
39% : At least a dozen other people are currently at risk of execution after being sentenced to hang in connection with the protests, human rights groups warned.
35% : IHR, which says the security forces have killed at least 458 people in the protest crackdown, this week warned Iran had already executed more than 500 people in 2022, a sharp jump on last year's figure.
33% : Protests have swept Iran since the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd who died in mid-September after her arrest for an alleged breach of the country's strict dress code for women.

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