HRW and Boroumand Center: at least 59 executed on political charges since 18 March

Human Rights Watch and the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center said at least 59 men were executed on politically motivated national-security charges between 18 March and the end of August, including at least 29 arrested over the December–January protests; in 16 of those 29 cases the capital charges involved no allegation of killing.