
Iran Hangs Man over 2022 Protest Deaths, Activists Say Conviction Wrongful
This is Beirut, 11/06 17:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Iran on Wednesday hanged a man convicted of killing seven people, including a 10-year-old boy, during nationwide protests in 2022 but human rights groups said he was the victim of a wrongful conviction. Abbas Kurkuri, also known as Mojahed Kurkur, was hanged at dawn in Sheiban prison in the western city of Ahvaz, the Norway-based Iran Human ...