IRAN. RIGHTS WATCH CONDEMNS RISE IN EXECUTIONS

a US-based human rights monitor voiced "grave concern" over a spike in the number of executions in Iran since the election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005. Human Rights Watch said a review of Iranian media reports showed that judicial authorities had executed 10 prisoners and condemned another 21 to death between January 20 and February 20 alone.
Human Rights Watch said it also feared the imminent execution of three people accused of involvement in hijacking an airplane in 2001, one of whom was 17 years old at the time.