Sydney man Mohammad Hashemi's cousin Majid Kazemi was executed after a ""forced confession and sham trial"". He says if the Australian government is serious about stopping the Islamic Republic's human rights abuses, it will cut ties with Iran and list their military arm as a terrorist organisation.
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LONDON: UN human rights experts have expressed dismay at a decision by Iran’s judiciary to press forward with the execution of a juvenile offender, despite repeated calls to halt the killing. Hossein Shahbazi was 17 years old when he was arrested for the fatal stabbing of a classmate during a brawl. The court that sentenced him relied in part on confessions that the UN experts