Iran performs first known execution of prisoner arrested during protests

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Iran is one of the world's top executioners.
48% : "And we deplore what we see today in Iran and sadly we see in other countries," Dujarric said.
43% : "What we would want to see is a world where there is no death penalty."___
42% :And the European Union said it "condemns his execution in the strongest possible terms."
41% : The execution of Mohsen Shekari comes as other detainees also face the possibility of the death penalty for their involvement in the protests, which began in mid-September, first as an outcry against Iran's morality police.
41% : That charge has been levied against others in the decades since 1979 and carries the death penalty.
40% : "U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric on Thursday reiterated the organization's strong opposition to the death penalty.
39% : No, 15,000 protesters in Iran were not sentenced to death"Salavati alone has sentenced more than 100 political prisoners, human right activists, media workers and others seeking to exercise freedom of assembly to lengthy prison terms as well as several death sentences," the U.S. Treasury said in sanctioning him in 2019.
39% : At least 475 people have been killed in the demonstrations amid a heavy-handed security crackdown, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a group that's been monitoring the protests since they began.
33% :Iran has been rocked by protests since the Sept. 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died after being detained by the country's morality police.
31% : Shekari was accused of blocking a street in Tehran and attacking with a machete a member of the security forces, who required stitches for his wounds, the agency said.
21% : DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Iran said Thursday it executed a prisoner convicted for a crime allegedly committed during the country's ongoing nationwide protests, the first such death penalty carried out by Tehran.

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