For human rights advocates, Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash this week, is also known as the 'butcher of Tehran.' He was notorious for his role in the mass execution of thousands of prisoners in 1988, part of the so-called "death committee" that secretively decided the fate of those jailed for their political views. Reza Akbari was spared only hours before execution.

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