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Norway summons Iran Ambassador Over Executions

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Norway’s foreign ministry said Monday it had summoned Iran’s ambassador to Oslo for talks after the execution of demonstrators protesting the death of Mahsa Amini. online news

Iran’s judiciary on Monday sentenced to death three more people accused of killing members of the security forces during the protests.

The Islamic republic has been rocked by civil unrest since the September 16 death in custody of Kurdish Iranian Amini, 22, following her arrest for allegedly violating Iran’s strict dress code for women.

Tehran on Saturday announced that two men had been hanged for killing a paramilitary force member in November during the unprecedented protests, sparking an international outcry.

“Norway strongly condemns the execution by Iran of demonstrators Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Mohammad Hosseini”, Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt wrote on Twitter.

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“We call on Iran to end the repression of human rights. Norway urges Iran to respond to protests with meaningful reform and to immediately halt executions”, she said.

The meeting with Iran’s envoy will take place on Tuesday, a ministry spokesman told AFP.

Other European countries, including Belgium, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands, have announced similar moves.

The latest sentences, which can still be appealed, bring to 17 the total number of people condemned to death in connection with nearly four months of protests.

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Germany Summons Iran Envoy Over Protester Executions

Germany summoned Iran’s ambassador to Berlin on Monday in protest against Tehran’s bloody crackdown on demonstrations and the latest executions of anti-government protesters, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said.

Baerbock told reporters the Iranian envoy had been called to her ministry “to make unmistakably clear that the brutal repression, the oppression and the terrorising of its own population as well as the most recent two executions will not remain without consequence”.

The German minister said it was “key” that the European Union remain united and not “close our eyes” to human rights violations in other nations.

“We must not be resigned but should make clear again and again that we stand by the people who want nothing but to live in freedom and security,” she said.

On Saturday, Iran executed Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini for killing a paramilitary force member in November, in Karaj west of Tehran.

Two other men, Mohsen Shekari and Majidreza Rahnavard, were put to death in December after being convicted of separate attacks on security forces.

The executions have sparked global outrage and new Western sanctions against Tehran.

Earlier German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called Saturday’s executions “appalling” and urged Iran to stop carrying out the death penalty “and to release those arrested on false grounds”.

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