Iran carries out first execution by hanging over protests

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : "But the threat of execution will not stifle people's will for freedom."
46% : Iran is among the countries leading the world in executions.
41% : That charge carries the death penalty.
39% :Iran has been rocked by unrest that erupted after the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini on Sept. 16 while in the custody of the morality police.
38% :"The Iranian authorities must immediately quash all death sentences, refrain from seeking the imposition of the death penalty and drop all charges against those arrested in connection with their peaceful participation in protests," it said.
34% :Iran has blamed the unrest on foreign countries, including the US, but offered no evidence of outside interference.
32% : At least 475 people have been killed in the protests so far and more than 18,000 have been detained amid a brutal security crackdown, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran.
30% : Iran hanged a man Thursday convicted of slashing a security guard and blocking a street in Tehran -- the first such execution over the country's ongoing nationwide protests.
25% : Amnesty International has said Iranian authorities are seeking the death penalty for at least 21 people in what it called "sham trials designed to intimidate those participating in the popular uprising that has rocked Iran."

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