mohammad mahdi karami and seyed mohammad hosseini had appealed against their sentences, saying they'dalse confessions. on saturday, iranian state tv broadcast footage of the two men testifying during a court hearing that has been condemned as a sham trial by human rights groups. in every single execution, we see that the primary and the most significant evidence or self incriminating confessions are obtained under torture. indeed we know that one of the people who was hanged today was tortured heavily ahead of his execution to obtain his confession. so i don't really call them a judicial process but lynching committees. their deaths bring the total number of protesters known to have been executed in the aftermath of the unrest to four. but death sentences are not a new tactic used by iran's regime to oppress opposition. the islamic republic has been handing out death sentences to political prisoners for four decades. in 1980s, thousands of protesters were executed summarily. the human rights group amnesty international says it fears at least 26 more people are at great risk of executi

one of them was a karate champion in iran and one of them, the parents of mohammad mahdi karami wereuthorities not to execute them and saying he raised his son with great financial difficulties for hoping for a better future. he was sending him to be a sportsman to do karate and supporting him through his education, so we know that they are from working families and we know that they did not have access to proper trial. they did not have access to their chosen solicitors, to their chosen lawyers, and the court has issued them at lawyers and we know that there was not enough evidence to support the court reasons that they had part in killing these members and we know that they were forced to confess in many trials and the public of iran and these two come by force. thank ou ve and these two come by force. thank you very much- _ and these two come by force. thank you very much- -- _ and these two come by force. thank you very much. -- confessed - and these two come by force. thank you very much. -- confessed by- you very much. —— confessed by force. tens of thousands of members of the

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removed their hijabs holding placards with the names of these two young men written on them, mohammad mahdi karamien an outcry on social media with people from different backgrounds condemning these executions. these two men were sentenced to death in a court proceeding that only took a week. and today this afternoon this video emerged out of iran from mohammad karami's grave, and his mother, this woman shrivelled with pain, is crying over her son's grave. this video has gone viral on twitter. this pain echoes with many people inside the country. since the protests started the regime has killed more than 517 people. 70 children were among them. prince harry has revealed that he felt guilty about being unable to show any emotion in public, after the death of his mother, princess diana. in a new interview for itv promoting his memoir, the duke of sussex, who was 12 at the time, says he only cried once, when she was laid to rest. 0ur royal correspondent daniela relph reports. memories of diana princess of wales, and the anguish and grief of her son at her death, are at the heart of prince harry's mem

these two young men, mahdi karami and mohammad hosseini, were executed this morning.mber of people executed in relation to protests to four. these two men went through a court proceeding that took only one week. according to amnesty international, it was a sham trial that had no resemblance to meaningful judicial proceedings. and what the state has broadcast in relation to these cases is a bunch of videos that shows this militia man allegedly being beaten up, and some confessions from these two men that are described by rights groups as forced confessions. this is the case and what we know about it. and as you mentioned, khosro, the comment from human rights groups including amnesty international is that it is a sham trial and it has been criticised. what have iranian officials had to say? iranian officials are consistently defending these court proceedings. one thing that is important to note is that, after iran's supreme leader delivered a speech demanding that the judiciary should act severely and should burn the festering wound, thejudiciary started handing out th

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these two men, mohammad mahdi karami and mohammad hosseini were executed this morning. trial, a group trial, by amnesty international that had no resemblance of a meaningfuljudicial proceeding. these two men were deprived of the right to pick their own lawyers. theirfamilies have been campaigning to get them to choose their own lawyers. one of these men, mahdi karami, had gone on hunger strike. he was on hunger strike when he was executed this morning and his family have been pleading to just get a chance to meet him before he is executed. his parents were literally outside the prison when he was executed this morning, and they were deprived of this right at the last moment. this is the whole case, the whole trial. we don't have access to the evidence. thejudicial system in iran has released some videos of the scene that allegedly shows the killing of a militiaman, but we haven't seen any proof of showing these men were involved in that incident. in addition to that, the judicial system has used their own confessions, but rights groups have long documented that islamic

mohammad mahdi karami and seyed mohammad hosseini had appealed against their sentences for killing aber of the security forces during nationwide protests against the government last year. they said they'd been tortured into making false confessions. now on bbc news, the media show. welcome to the media show. in a minute, we're going to talk about the christmas period and what it taught us about advertising, both about what ads are working and where companies are wanting to spend their money. we'll also talk to stephen lambert from studio lambert, which made the runaway hit for the bbc, the traitors. but before we do all of that, let's talk about channel 4 privatisation, because it looks like it could be off. global�*s podcast the news agents broke this story. it's got hold of a letter from the culture secretary, michelle donelan, sent to the prime minister, which appears to advise against privatisation, saying there are better ways to ensure channel 4's sustainability. let's bring in chris curtis, editor in chief of broadcast magazine. hiya, chris. good to have you back on the media

envoy to iran, robert malley, said the executions of 20—year—old seyed mohammad hosseini and mohammad mahdi karamiman rights groups have also condemned the killings saying the men were unable to choose their lawyers. earlier, i spoke to roja assadi from bbc persian who told me more about these executions. many foreign ministers have used the same kind of vocabulary, apparent, revolting. such as james cleverly, the french secretary, the us special envoy to iran, robert madley. and lots of eu mps and mps of different european countries such as the netherlands, france, germany. some of these people have sponsored these political prisoners in iran and they were trying to save them by writing to the iranian ambassador to the countries and asking to save their lives. now it's very disappointing for them. lives. now it's very disappointing forthem. i lives. now it's very disappointing for them. i think the international community has united in condemning this act of execution. what community has united in condemning this act of execution.— this act of execution. what more do we know about _ this act of e

envoy to iran, robert malley, said the executions of 20—year—old seyed mohammad hosseini and mohammad mahdi karamiam trials. human rights groups have also condemned the killings saying the men were unable to choose their lawyers. here's more from our bbc monitoring colleague, the iran analyst, khosro kalbasi isfahani. these two young men, mahdi karami and seyed hosseini, were executed this morning. this brought the number of people executed in relation to protests to four. these two men went through a court proceeding that took only one week. according to amnesty international, it was a sham trial that had no resemblance to meaningfuljudicial proceeding. what the state has broadcast in relation to these cases is a bunch of videos that shows these militia allegedly being beaten up, and some confessions from these two men, described by rights groups as forced confessions. this is the case and what we know about it. and as you mention, the comment from human rights groups including amnesty international is that it's a sham trial. it's been criticised. what have iranian officials had to say? iranian o