Iran executes two men for 'killing volunteer' in protests

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% :Pictured: a rally in solidarity with the protests in Iran, held in Zurich, Switzerland on January 7, 2023
50% :Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned last month that the UK will need to spend an 'increasing amount of time' on Tehran amid its destabilising actions and nuclear programme.
43% :'The UK is strongly opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances.'
39% : The judiciary's Mizan news agency said the 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 November 3.
39% : The men were convicted of the killing, as well as 'corruption on Earth', a Koranic term and charge that has been levied against others in the decades since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and carries the death penalty.
39% : Amnesty International said last month that Iranian authorities are seeking the death penalty for at least 26 others in what it called 'sham trials designed to intimidate protesters'.
38% : Mr Cleverly said: 'Iran must immediately end the violence against its own people.
38% : Death sentences in Iran are typically carried out by hanging.
37% : The U.S. special envoy to Iran, Robert Malley, also condemned the executions, saying they followed 'sham trials'.
33% : The European Union's top diplomat on Saturday condemned the executions and called on Iran to immediately stop carrying out death sentences against protestors, and annul existing sentences.
32% : She wrote: '(They were) hanged by the regime in Iran because they didn't want to submit to its brutal and inhuman actions.
32% :Iran denies that confessions are extracted under torture.
31% : Two further terrible fates that encourage us to increase the pressure on Tehran through the EU.'

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