Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Monday said the number of executions in Iran since Rouhanis June election was twice what it was a year ago, when Ahmadinejad was still in power. Nearly all of the opposition activists in prison before he was elected are still in prison and religious and ethnic minorities continue to be persecuted, she added. Ebadi cited figures from the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), which reported that over 200 people, including as many as four minors, were executed between June 14 and October 1. She said it was double the number of executions that took place in the same period in 2012.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 04:04:41 +0000
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