Man publicly executed in Iran for alleged protest crimes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Mashhad, a Shiite holy city, is located some 460 miles (740km) east of the Iranian capital, Tehran.
47% : "A system that treats its people in this way cannot expect to continue to have halfway normal relations with the European Union."
47% :Iran is one of the world's top executioners and typically executes prisoners by hanging.
44% : Activists have put pressure on companies providing cranes to Iran in the past, warning that they can be used for executions.
43% : The development highlights the speed at which Iran now carries out death sentences handed to those detained in the demonstrations that the government hopes to put down.
41% : That charge has been levied against others in the decades since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and carries the death penalty.
40% : A system that treats its people in this way cannot expect to continue to have halfway normal relations with the European Union German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock"We are making clear that we stand beside innocent people in Iran," she said as she arrived at the Brussels meeting.
39% : At least 488 people have been killed since the demonstrations began in mid-September, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a group that has been monitoring the protests.
37% : The bloc was set to approve on Monday a fresh series of sanctions against Iran over its crackdown on protesters, and also for supplying drones to Russia for use in its war against Ukraine, the bloc's top diplomat said.
34% : Iran has executed a second prisoner who was convicted of crimes committed during nationwide protests challenging the country's theocracy, publicly hanging him from a construction crane as a gruesome warning to others.
34% : Amid the unrest, Iran is also being battered by an economic crisis that has seen the national currency, the rial, drop to new lows against the US dollar.
33% : The unrest in Iran began after the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini who had been detained by the morality police (Middle East Images/AP)
31% : In the absence of serious measures to deter the Islamic Republic from executing protesters, we will be facing even more horrific crimes like the 1980s mass execution of political prisoners Iran Human RightsExecutions carried out in public using a crane have been rare in recent years, though Iran used the same method of hanging to put down unrest following the disputed 2009 presidential election and the Green Movement protests that followed.

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