(Corrects year in paragraph 9 to 2010, **t 2009) *
Spike in
executions since Hassan Rouhani became president * Hardliners could be using
executions to undermine Rouhani * Rouhani pre-occupied with nuclear talks and eco**my By Babak Dehghanpisheh BEIRUT, April 4 (Reuters) - Within the small community of mi**rity Arabs where he lived in southwest Iran, Hashem Shaabani was k**wn as a teacher, an advocate for civil rights and a poet. Shaabani, 32, was arrested in February 2011 and accused of belonging to an armed separatist group. "It also made me think that we have a long road ahead before we can reach democracy and freedom." Since president Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate in Iran, took ****** last August, there has been a surge in executions: at least 537 people have been executed in the past eight months, nearly 200 of them since the beginning of this year, according to figures compiled by the
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center.
أكثر...
Spike in Iran executions seen politically motivated