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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/world/middleeast/un-monitor-says-iran-is-worsening-on-rights-despite-pledges.html?_r=0

UN Monitor Says Iran Is Worsening on Rights

(New York Times) Nick Cumming-Bruce - Iran's use of the death penalty is rising and its repression of political critics is worsening despite promises by President Hassan Rouhani, UN human rights monitor Ahmed Shaheed said on Monday. Iran has one of the highest execution rates in the world and continues "to harass, arrest, prosecute and imprison members of civil society who express criticism of the government or who publicly deviate from officially sanctioned narratives," Shaheed said in Geneva. Iran executed 753 people in 2014, including at least 13 juveniles, and 252 people in the first 10 weeks of 2015, compared with 580 in 2012.

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