Iran executes two men convicted of blasphemy
Iran has executed two men who were convicted of "burning the Quran" and "insulting the Prophet of Islam", the country's judiciary says./ Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli-Zare ran dozens of social media accounts "dedicated to atheism and desecration of the sanctities", the judiciary's Mizan news agency reported./ Mr Mehdad's lawyer had insisted that he was innocent and his sentence unjust./ A rights group called their executions "a cruel act by a medieval regime"./ There has been a surge in executions in the Islamic Republic amid ...
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