UN Investigator: Human Rights Decline in Iran

A United Nations human rights investigator has expressed shock at last weekend's execution of an Iranian woman convicted of murdering a man she said was trying to rape her. The special rapporteur on Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, told reporters Monday that he had raised concerns with Iran's government about Reyhaneh Jabbari's case but had "not received a satisfactory reply with regard to the points raised, essentially about the fairness of the trial that she was...

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