Four more men, including two Kurdish political activists, were put to death in secret this week without informing their families, as Amnesty International recorded 2,159 executions in Iran last year — the highest of any country.
Iran secretly executes four as it hits global death sentence record
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Iran secretly executes four as it hits global death sentence record