How do European countries respond to the first execution of a protester in Iran?

 

Britain has placed new sanctions on Iran, including numerous government officials, for their part in a crackdown on anti-regime protesters. This comes as the European Union announced it too is planning further sanctions. International condemnation has followed Tehran's execution of a protester. Mohsen Shekari was hanged on Thursday, and activists are warning that at least a dozen more Iranian protesters face the same fate.

After first known execution over protests in Iran: Unrest likely to 'get worse' |

 

Iranian authorities carried out the first known execution on Thursday over the ongoing anti-government unrest that has shaken the Islamic regime over the past few months. Mohsen Shekari, 23, had been convicted and sentenced to death for blocking a street and wounding a member of the Basij force, a paramilitary branch of the nation's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, during the early phase of the demonstrations in mid-September.