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US Condemns Iran’s Executions Linked to Protests

Headline from Voice of America

State Department says executions are part of ‘brutal effort to suppress peaceful protests’

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Reports & sources

9 articles, oldest first.

  1. CBS News

    Protest organizer Bita Milanian discusses executions in Iran (opens CBS News)

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    CBS News's feed description

    Sunday in Century City, an estimated 15,000 people turned out to protest executions in Iran, and to commemorate the downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, which was shot down by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran shortly after take-off two years ago.

  2. Voice of America

    US Condemns Iran’s Executions Linked to Protests (opens Voice of America)

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    Voice of America's feed description

    State Department says executions are part of ‘brutal effort to suppress peaceful protests’

  3. France 24

    Iran is using executions to crush dissent and quell protests, says UN (opens France 24)

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    France 24's feed description

    Iran is weaponising the death penalty, attempting to crush dissent by frightening the public with the execution of protesters, the United Nations said Tuesday.

  4. Al-Monitor

    Iran intensifies protest crackdown as UN decries executions (opens Al-Monitor)

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    Al-Monitor's feed description

    Iran's judiciary said Tuesday it will "firmly punish" women who violate strict dress rules, as the United Nations warned Tehran is trying to crush protests by weaponising the death penalty. Demonstrations have swept Iran since the September 16 death of Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, 22, after he…

  5. The Times of Israel

  6. The Times of Israel

    Iran ‘weaponizing death sentence’ to scare off anti-regime protesters, UN charges (opens The Times of Israel)

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    The Times of Israel's feed description

    Global organization's rights body says Islamic Republic is wielding threats of criminal proceedings and death penalty to quash dissent, urges it to listen to grievances instead

  7. Al Jazeera

    Iran executions ‘state sanctioned killing’: UN rights chief (opens Al Jazeera)

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    Al Jazeera's feed description

    UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned the ‘weaponisation’ of the death penalty to squash dissent.

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