Iran carries out first known hanging over protests

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% :Iran executes more people annually than any nation other than China.
43% : In a relatively new tactic, protest supporters staged three days of nationwide strikes up to Wednesday which closed down shops in several major cities including Tehran, according to rights groups.
41% : In a tweet, former Iranian football star Ali Karimi, a strong supporter of the protests, warned: "If we stay silent today, tomorrow we will be using the 'Do not execute' hashtag for other children of Iran."
39% : "Mohsen Shekari, a rioter who blocked Sattar Khan Street in Tehran on September 25 and wounded one of the security guards with a machete, was executed this morning," the judiciary's Mizan Online website said.
38% : Prior to the latest execution, Amnesty had said at least 28 people, including three children, could face the death penalty in connection with the nationwide protests.
36% : The revolutionary court in Tehran heard Shekari had been arrested after striking the member of the Basij paramilitary force in the shoulder with the blade, an injury that required 13 stitches, Mizan Online said.
27% : Mohsen Shekari, 23, is the first person known to have been put to death by Iran over the protests that have swept the country for nearly three months - -Iran carried out its first known execution Thursday over the protests that have shaken the regime since September, hanging a 23-year-old man after a legal process denounced as a show trial by rights groups.
26% : The judgement brought to 11 the number of people in Iran sentenced to death in connection with the protests, in what Amnesty International said was a strategy using the death penalty as a "tool of political repression to instil fear".
15% : Demonstrations have swept Iran for nearly three months since Mahsa Amini, 22, died after her arrest by the morality police in Tehran for an alleged breach of the country's strict hijab dress code for women.

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