Iran on Friday (May 19) 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. Majid Kazemi, Saleh Mirhashemi and Saeed Yaghoubi were executed in the central city of Isfahan, the judiciary said in a statement on Twitter, adding they had 'martyred'...
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.
They were ignited by the death on Sept. 16 of 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran's morality police. Families and supporters held nightly vigils outside the Dastgerd prison in Isfahan in support of the three men who were being held inside. Street protests broke out in Isfahan, the capital Tehran and a few other cities after the executions were announced, according to videos posted on social media.
State media broadcast videos of what were presented as the defendants' confessions, which Amnesty International said were extracted by torture.
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