Iran: A journalist and blogger was executed

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Varesh, an Iranian blogger, reports [Fa] that according to several news sites, Yaghoub Mehrnhad, an Iranian journalist, blogger and civil society activist,was executed in Zahedan. He was accused of collaborating with a terrorist group. The blogger says it was a shocking news for Iranian civil society and Iran based news sites did not mention that Mehrnahad was a journalist.