Iran executions three times last year's rate: U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) – Iran has witnessed a dramatic increase in executions so far in 2011, United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Wednesday and her office said the rate was three times that of last year. Expressing alarm at the rise, she said at least 66 people, including three known to be political dissidents, were executed in January. Pillay aides said they had recorded about 300 executions for the whole of last year. "We have urged Iran, time and time again, to halt executions," said Pillay, the U.N. high commissioner for ...
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