Iran executes second protester Majidreza Rahnavard after 'sham' trial

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49% : The method of execution was not given.
48% : Iran is one of the world's top executioners, typically executing prisoners by hanging.
42% : The execution comes as other detainees also face possible death penalty for their involvement in the protests, which began first as an outcry against Iran's morality police and have expanded into one of the most serious challenges to Iran's theocracy since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
42% : The organisation last month condemned the 'chilling use of the death penalty' to suppress the protests.
41% : That charge has been levied against others in the decades since 1979 and carries the death penalty.
39% : At least 475 people have been killed in the demonstrations amid a heavy-handed security crackdown, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a group that's been monitoring the protests since they began.
36% : Majidreza Rahnavard was executed in public on Monday in Iran on a charge of 'waging war against God' after what activists say was a sham trialMohsen Shekari was hanged last week, becoming the first person to be executed since protests broke out in Iran back in SeptemberRahnavard was accused of carrying out his attack - in which four militiamen were said to have been injured - in the city of Mashhad last month.
35% : Shekari was charged with 'waging war against God' after the Iranian regime said he blocked Sattar Khan Boulevard on September 25 during a riot in Tehran and 'stabbed the left shoulder of a Basiji', the official IRNA news agency reported.'Mohsen gave his life for freedom.
33% : Activists say he was given a sham trial with no lawyer and bore signs of tortureIran has executed a second protester amid nationwide demonstrations calling for an end to the mullahs' rule.
33% :Iran has been rocked by weeks of protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurdish woman who died in police custody after being arrested for allegedly failing to wear a compulsory headscarf.
33% :Iran has been rocked by protests since the September 16 death of 22-year-old Amini, who died after being detained by the country's morality police.
30% : Protests broke out across Iran on Wednesday night with local reports of huge crowds descending on a central square in Tehran in a renewed bid to overthrow the Islamic theocracy.

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