Outrage Follows Iran's Execution of Protester

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : "I'm absolutely horrified, shocked, and outraged at Mohsen Shekari's execution," Javaid Rehman, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, told VOA Persian Service in an interview Thursday from the United Kingdom.
45% : On Wednesday, student protesters were in the streets across Iran.
45% :Iran was already on Day 3 of a strike called by protesters.
39% : Washington called the execution a "grim escalation," and the prime minister of Italy and the foreign ministers of Germany and the U.K. deemed it what one called "unacceptable repression."Hadi Ghaemi, director of the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, told VOA's Persian service that all death sentences in Iranian courts are "political killings."
35% :The civil unrest in Iran was triggered by the September death of an Iranian Kurdish woman, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had been detained by the country's morality police for not wearing her hijab properly.
34% : The international community, he added, needs to take seriously that Iran will execute more of the protesters who have been sentenced to death.
33% : State media reported Thursday that Mohsen Shekari, 23, was hanged Thursday morning after being convicted and sentenced to death for blocking a street and attacking a security force member in Tehran, who needed stitches to close the wound.

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