UN says Iran is ‘weaponizing’ the criminal justice system

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Human rights groups are raising alarms about the high number of recent death sentences and imprisonment of protesters in Iran. This week, the United Nations accused Tehran of “weaponizing the criminal procedures to punish people for exercising their basic rights.”

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