Iran carries out first known execution of prisoner arrested in nationwide 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."___
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% : 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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