Iran reportedly conducts execution in connection with protests

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : The charge "moharbeh" carries the death penalty.
39% : The Guardian reported that "as many as 21 people have been charged with sentences that are likely to carry the death penalty."
39% : According to The Guardian, the human rights group Amnesty International said: "The Iranian authorities must immediately quash all death sentences, refrain from seeking the imposition of the death penalty and drop all charges against those arrested in connection with their peaceful participation in protests."
31% : The Associated Press reported that the Mizan News Agency, which the Iranian judiciary runs, said that "Shekari was accused of blocking a street in Tehran and attacking with a machete a member of the security forces, who required stitches for his wounds."

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