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Iran’s judiciary announced Thursday the execution of three men detained in January’s nationwide protests, the first such sentences known to have been carried out. Iran’s Mizan news agency reported the executions and identified the men as Mehdi Ghasemi, Saeed Davvodi, and 19-year-old wrestler Saleh Mohammadi. Iran typically carries out the death penalty by hanging. Human rights groups say they were killed without a fair trial and forced to give confessions under torture. The regime’s state media accused them of killing two police officers in Qom, some 80 miles south of the capital, Tehran, during the protests.
