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Podcast: Mission Network News - Middle East
Episode: Heart4Iran equips Iran’s emerging leaders
Description: Iran (MNN) — Minorities press on despite an increasingly dangerous atmosphere in Iran.
A new report from Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and France’s Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM) says executions surged for the second year in a row in Iran as authorities targeted protestors involved in the ‘Women. Life. Freedom.’ movement.
Official sources noted 125 executions in 2023, but the report lists at least 834 executions – a 43 percent increase since 2022 and the second-highest number of state-sanctioned killings since records began. At least 22 of those who died last year were women, the report says, the highest number since 2013...