UN rapporteur joins weekly hunger strike over Iran's execution surge and protest crackdown
UN special rapporteur Gina Romero Rodríguez will join a weekly hunger strike on Tuesday to denounce Iran's escalating human rights abuses and death penalty usage to quash dissent. In a social media video, she affirmed her participation in the "no-execution Tuesday" strike, highlighting the death penalty's application to those exercising freedom of assembly, association, and expression, as well as political rights.
Rodriguez denounced the recent violent suppression of protesters and the ongoing execution of detainees. She called on the international community to support the strike, mourning the deaths of protesters and emphasizing Iran's high concentration of political executions in nearly four decades.
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