Iran Executes Two After Sham Trial - They Weren't Even Allowed to See the Evidence Against Them

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : The men were convicted of the killing, as well as "corruption on Earth," a Quranic term and charge that has been levied against others in the decades since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and carries the death penalty.
39% : At least 517 protesters have been killed and over 19,200 people have been arrested, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a group that has closely monitored the unrest.
38% : Meanwhile, the judiciary's Mizan news agency said the two executed men had been convicted of killing Ruhollah Ajamian, a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's volunteer Basij force, in the city of Karaj outside of Tehran on Nov. 3.
38% : Death sentences in Iran are typically carried out by hanging.
35% : Iran said Saturday that it executed two men convicted of allegedly killing a paramilitary volunteer during a demonstration, the latest executions aimed at halting the nationwide protests now challenging the country's theocracy.
35% : German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Twitter that Karami and Hosseini were "more than just two names.""(They were) hanged by the regime in Iran because they didn't want to submit to its brutal and inhuman actions.
33% : Two further terrible fates that encourage us to increase the pressure on Tehran through the EU," Baerbock wrote, per an English translation.
33% : The protests began in mid-September amid Amini's suspicious death in a hospital in Tehran.

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