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The U.N. quality rights main Volker Turk connected Friday (February 27, 2026) called for an immediate moratorium connected the use of the death punishment successful Iran, informing that dozens much radical hazard execution aft the archetypal decease condemnation linked to January wide protests was issued this week.
“I americium horrified by reports that astatine slightest 8 people, including 2 children, person been sentenced to decease in transportation with the protests,” Mr. Turk said successful a code to the U.N. Human Rights Council successful Geneva, adding that different 30 radical appeared to beryllium astatine risk of the aforesaid sentence.
A revolutionary tribunal successful Tehran issued a decease condemnation for an Iranian antheral accused of “enmity against god” which, if confirmed, would beryllium the archetypal specified condemnation linked to mass protests successful January, a root adjacent to the man’s household said.
Rights groups say thousands of radical were killed successful a crackdown connected the protests, the worst home unrest successful Iran since the epoch of its 1979 Islamic Revolution. During the unrest, U.S. President Donald Trump warned Tehran that helium could bid subject enactment if it carried retired executions.
“I americium highly alarmed astir the imaginable for determination subject escalation and its interaction connected civilians, and I anticipation the dependable of crushed prevails,” Mr. Turk said successful the aforesaid speech.
Talks successful Geneva connected Thursday betwixt the United States and Iran made advancement implicit Tehran’s atomic programme, mediator Oman said, but determination was nary motion of a breakthrough that could avert imaginable U.S. strikes amid a massive subject buildup.
