Iran hangs protester for 'waging war on God' in first execution after unrest

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Iran is one of the world's top executioners and typically executes prisoners by hanging.
41% :That charge has been levied against others in the decades since 1979 and carries the death penalty.
39% :Other detainees also face the possibility of the death penalty for their involvement in the protests, which began in mid-September as an outcry against Iran's morality police.
39% :Iran has been rocked by nationwide protests since September ( Image: UGC/AFP via Getty Images)
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.
33% : Iran has been rocked by protests since the Sept. 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died after being detained by the country's morality police.
31% :Iran's Mizan news agency reported Shekari was accused the man of blocking a street in Tehran and attacking a member of the security forces with a machete.
22% : Iran announced today it has executed a prisoner convicted for a crime allegedly committed during the country's ongoing protests, the first such death penalty carried out by Tehran.

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