Iran's Execution Spree Continues: Three Protesters Face Death.

Three men in Iran face imminent execution on charges related to anti-government protests, amid a spate of at least 209 executions in just five months. The men were accused of fatally shooting two members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s Basij volunteer force and one police officer during the height of the “women, life, freedom” movement that erupted this fall amid protests rejecting clerical rule. Rights groups say the men's confessions were likely given under torture or duress. Iran has executed at least 576 people last year, an increase of 83 percent from the previous year’s record of at least 314 people.