Authorities in Iran have executed three men sentenced to death in connection with the nationwide anti-government protests last year, the judiciary says.
The three were convicted over their alleged involvement in a shooting attack that killed three security personnel in Isfahan in November.
Amnesty International says they were subjected to unfair trials and allegedly tortured.
Four other protesters have been hanged since December.
Dozens more have reportedly been sentenced to death or charged with capital offences.
The protests swept across the Islamic Republic following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who was detained by morality police in Tehran in September for allegedly wearing her hijab “improperly”.
The three who were executed on Friday – Majid Kazemi, 30, Saleh Mirhashemi, 36, and Saeed Yaqoubi, 37 – were arrested after protests in the central city of Isfahan on 16 November, during which two Basij paramilitary force members and a police officer were shot dead.
Sources told Amnesty International that the men were forcibly disappeared, then tortured and forced to make incriminating statements that formed the basis of the criminal cases against them.
Interrogators allegedly suspended Kazemi upside down, showed him a video of them torturing his brother, subjected him to mock executions and threatened to kill his brothers. (BBC)