Iran Executes Two Protesters Accused of Killing Militia Member

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42% : Three others received the death penalty in the case, including Hamid Ghareh-Hassanlu, 53, a radiologist, according to Iran Human Rights.
41% : "These individuals were not executed by means of a judicial process; they were killed by a lynching committee," said Hadi Ghaemi, the executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran, a nongovernmental organization in New York.
39% :More than 100 people arrested by Iranian authorities in connection with the protests have been sentenced to death or charged with crimes carrying the death penalty, Mr. Amiry-Moghaddam said.
38% : Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, a spokesman for Norway-based Iran Human Rights, a nongovernmental group that tracks Iran's use of capital punishment, condemned the executions.
37% : Prosecutors said Mr. Ajamian was stabbed and bludgeoned with rocks during protests in the city of Karaj, near Tehran.
37% :The first known execution of a person connected with the protests was on Dec. 8, when Mohsen Shekari, who was convicted of blocking a street in Tehran by holding a "machete" and of injuring a member of the Basij, was put to death.
35% : It called on Iran to annul other death sentences and to "ensure that those who are under any form of detention or imprisonment are not subject to any form of mistreatment."
34% : The European Union said it was appalled by Saturday's executions, calling them "yet another sign of the Iranian authorities' violent repression of civilian demonstrations."

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