Spate of Iran Executions After Rouhani Election Alarms UN
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Iran’s government executed at least 82 people in the weeks after Hassan Rouhani was elected as president in June, according to a United Nations investigator.
Ahmed Shaheed, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, said in a report presented to the General Assembly today that he’s “alarmed by the spate of executions,” 38 of which were officially announced during the same period that “at least 44 others reportedly took place.”