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Iran has carried out its second execution linked to the nearly three-month wave of anti-government protests.
The country’s judiciary said Majid Rahnavard, who was hanged in the city of Mashhad, was convicted of stabbing and killing two members of the security forces.
The first execution linked to the protests took place last Thursday, when Mohsen Shekari was hanged, triggering widespread condemnation.
UK Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, warned that the world could not turn a blind eye to the repulsive violence committed by the Iranian regime against its own people.
The current protests were triggered by the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, who was detained by the country’s morality police in September and died while in custody.
Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, has expressed concerns over the polarization of the nation along religious and ethnic lines. Kukah disclosed this at the Society of African Mission’s 166th anniversary thanksgiving held in Lagos state. He noted that divisions had continued to serve as clogs in the wheel of the nation’s quest for development and progress. The Bishop, who tasked Nigerians on national cohesion, charged citizens […]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) say more than 220 civilians, including at least 56 children, were massacred by Burkina Faso's military in a single day this year. In the attacks on 25 February, the army killed 179 people in Soro village and 44 others in the nearby Nondin village. HRW termed […]
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