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Iran has executed three men accused of killing law enforcement agents during anti-government protests in 2022.

(Reuters) -Iran on Friday executed three men it said were implicated in the deaths of three members of its security forces during last year’s anti-government demonstrations, drawing protests at home and abroad.

Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi, and Saeed Yaqoubi, who were charged in the case referred to as "Isfahan House," were executed on the morning of May 19. Read about their story in our latest Human Rights Tracker.

Three Iranian men arrested while protesting the death in custody of 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini have been executed.

Grave fears over the imminent execution in Iran of three protesters – Majid Kazemi, Saleh Mirhashemi and Saeed Yaghoubi – from Esfahan after state media broadcast their forced “confessions” and the Supreme Court upheld their unjust conviction and death sentence despite torture.

Tehran is using capital punishment to crack down on and deter dissent, rights groups say, amid a spate of executions in 2023.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, on Wednesday oversaw, via video link, the signing of a deal to accelerate the building of a commercial link between the north and the south to increase trade through subverting the Suez Canal and the international sanctions. This agreement has remained a matter of discussion for years. The missing link is a 164-kilometer railroad between the city of Rasht, the capital city of Gilan Province, and the city of Astara in th...

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Rights groups are calling on the international community to prevent the execution of three protesters who were reportedly forced into confessions.