{"id":19427,"date":"2026-02-28T06:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/more-iranians-face-executions-over-protests-un-rights-chief\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T06:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:22:08","slug":"more-iranians-face-executions-over-protests-un-rights-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/more-iranians-face-executions-over-protests-un-rights-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"More Iranians face executions over protests: UN rights chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T&uuml;rk on Friday warned that more Iranians face the risk of being executed after widespread anti-government protests last month. &#8220;I am horrified by reports that at least eight people, including two children, have been sentenced to death in connection with the protests,&#8221; T&uuml;rk said in a speech&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5759707-iran-protests-death-sentences\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T&uuml;rk on Friday warned that more Iranians face the risk of being executed after widespread anti-government protests last month. &#8220;I am horrified by reports that at least eight people, including two children, have been sentenced to death in connection with the protests,&#8221; T&uuml;rk said in a speech&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}