Iran Executes 2 Men Arrested in Protests

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : On Thursday, Iran arrested Mehdi Beik, the political editor of the Etemad newspaper, whose interviews with families of those on death row, including Mr. Karami's father, have gained national attention.
44% :"The Islamic Republic has demonstrated yet again that it has no policy but reliance on maximum violence to address ongoing and growing opposition to its rule," said Hadi Ghaemi, the director of the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran.
42% : The men, Mohammad Mehdi Karami, the karate champion, and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, the factory worker, were hanged at dawn on Saturday in the city of Karaj near the capital, Tehran, after hasty trials on charges that they participated in the killing of a member of the Basij paramilitary group in November, according to the judiciary.
41% : The executions shocked Iranians who had been campaigning and protesting against the execution of protesters and drew widespread condemnation from the United States, France and the United Kingdom."Appalled by the regime's execution of two more young Iranians after sham trials," Robert Malley, the U.S. special envoy for Iran, said in a tweet.
40% : The Protests in IranSince September, Iran has been embroiled in demonstrations prompted by the death of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, while she was in police custody.
36% : Rights groups say at least 500 people have been killed by security forces, including 50 children, and the United Nations says at least 14,000 have been arrested.
36% :On Saturday night, protests broke out in several neighborhoods in Tehran, videos posted on social media showed, with crowds chanting, "For every person killed, there are a thousand others behind him."
35% :Iran on Saturday hanged two men, a 22-year-old national karate champion and a 39-year-old poultry worker, who participated in antigovernment demonstrations and whose executions were condemned as a ploy by the government to use violence and sow fear to crush the protests.
29% :Iran has deployed heavy-handed violence against protesters since mid-September, when the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police sparked a nationwide uprising to demand an end to theocratic rule in Iran.

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