Iran executes two men convicted of blasphemy – BBC News
Iran has executed two men who were convicted of “burning the Quran” and “insulting the Prophet of Islam”, the country’s judiciary says.
Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli-Zare ran dozens of social media accounts “dedicated to atheism and desecration of the sanctities”, the judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported.
Mr Mehdad’s lawyer had insisted that he was innocent and his sentence unjust.
A rights group called their executions “a cruel act by a medieval regime”.
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