Iran executes three men accused of killing members of security forces

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : "We must make the Islamic republic leaders understand that execution of protesters will not be tolerated," he wrote on Twitter.
43% : Hengaw, another Norway-based rights group, decried what it described as an "unfathomable wave of executions in Iran".
40% : Cultural figures inside and outside Iran as well as family members had stepped up a campaign over the past week to halt the executions on the grounds that Iranian authorities had failed to produce definitive evidence of the men's responsibility for the deaths of two members of the Basij paramilitary force and a law enforcement officer on 16 November.
39% : Human rights groups condemn executions following anti-regime protests that swept country last yearIran has executed three men it said were implicated in the deaths of three members of the security forces during anti-government protests, drawing condemnation from rights groups and risking further international isolation.
38% :At least 582 people were executed in Iran last year, the highest number since 2015 and well above the 333 recorded in 2021, IHR and Paris-based Together Against the Death Penalty said in a joint report in April.
35% : At least seven people have been hanged in relation to the protest movement that swept Iran in September, and dozens more have been sentenced to death or convicted of capital offences.
31% : The latest executions "must have serious consequences" for Tehran or dozens of "other protesters will be in danger", said Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the director of the Norway-based group Iran Human Rights.

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