Iran has conducted the first known execution in relation to the anti-government protests, hanging a man for ""waging war against God"". Now there are fears many more could face execution under these ""sham trials"".
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Iranian dissidents and ex-prisoners including a Western academic on Tuesday announced the filing of a civil suit in New York against Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi as he attended the UN General Assembly.The Islamic republic's hardline president is the target of the complaint for his role as a judge in the 1980s when thousands of people were sentenced to death in the country, according to the advocacy group National Union for Democracy in Iran. The suit had yet to be made public Tuesday evening by a US federal court in Manhattan.