[RSS] More than 5,000 killed in recent protests in Iran, rights group says, as regime rejects Trump claims
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2026 9:09 pm
Iran's top prosecutor on Friday called U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated claims that he halted the hangings of 800 detained protesters there "completely false." Meanwhile, the overall death toll from a bloody crackdown on nationwide demonstrations rose to at least 5,002, activists said.
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