First execution in Iran over protests
Iran said on Thursday it executed a prisoner convicted for a crime committed during the country's ongoing nationwide protests, the first such death penalty carried out by Tehran. Mohsen Shekari, 23, had been convicted and sentenced to death for blocking a street and wounding a paramilitary during the early phase of the protests in mid-September. Activists said other detainees also face the possibility of the death penalty for their involvement in the protests. Demonstrations have hit Iran since Iranian-Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, 22, died in September after her arrest in Tehran for an alleged breach of the country's hijab dress code for women. (Agencies)