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Al Jazeera English - Middle East - 'Nine to die' over Iran protests

Al Jazeera English - Middle East - 'Nine to die' over Iran protests: "Iran will 'soon execute' another nine people arrested over anti-government protests last year, a senior judiciary official has been quoted as saying.

The nine are among 11 protesters sentenced to death for 'waging war against God' and seeking to topple the government.

'Nine others will be hanged soon. The nine and the two who were hanged on Thursday were surely arrested in the recent riots and had links to anti-revolutionary groups,' the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Ebrahim Raisi as saying on Tuesday."

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