The Iranian government conducted its first known execution of a protestor arrested during the demonstrations for women’s rights, prompted by the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman arrested for showing too much of her hair, NBC News reports.
American and European leaders called their Iranian ambassadors to admonish them after learning of the death by hanging of Mohsen Shekari, the first of eleven people sentenced to death to be executed for their participation in the demonstrations. Iranian officials say Shekari injured a militiaman with a machete; he was convicted of “waging war against God.”