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A judiciary official has announced that in addition to the two people executed last week, nine others are to be executed in the very near future:

"The two people who were executed as well as the other nine who will soon be executed had certainly been arrested during the recent riots.  Each had belonged to an anti-revolutionary group, had aspired to sow dissent and to uproot the regime."

These timing of these executions is not a coincidence: they constitute a direct threat by the regime to discourage people from participating in the upcoming 22 Bahman (February 11) rallies for fear of suffering similar fates.

Update on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 12:39PM by Ali

Amnesty International has responded, expressing its fear that some or all of the nine death sentences will be carried out before 22 Bahman and urging the authorities to reconsider.