Iran hangs man over 2022 protest deaths, activists say conviction wrongful

Iran on Wednesday hanged a man convicted of killing seven people, including a 10-year-old boy, during nationwide protests in 2022 but human rights groups said he was the victim of a wrongful conviction.

Abbas Kurkuri, also known as Mojahed Kurkur, was hanged at dawn in Sheiban prison in the western city of Ahvaz, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights and Hengaw groups said.

His execution was reported by the Iranian judiciary’s Mizan Online website which said he had been convicted by a…