28.02.2012                      05.Adar. 5772

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Amnesty: Iran executions up four-fold in 2011

Crackdown against political opposition figures, groups intensifying ahead of parliamentary elections, rights group says.

Iran executed four times more people in 2011 than the previous year, according to an Amnesty International report released Tuesday. The public executions, it said, are used by Iranian authorities to strike fear into society.
Among those executed were juvenile offenders, which is illegal under international law. Most of the offenders executed were sentenced for drug offenses, according to the report….