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Iranians Fear Fast-Track Execution for Thousands of Jailed Protesters
(Sunday Times-UK) Roxana Saberi - Two weeks after Ali Rahbar was arrested in anti-regime protests in the Iranian city of Mashhad, his cousin heard that he had been executed. He was 33. Rahbar's family had no idea where he had been held or what the charge was. Three weeks after Iran's authorities began to brutally crush nationwide protests, fears have been growing over the fate of those taken alive. A member of Iran's parliament disclosed that the nationwide estimate of detained protesters "cited...during a closed-door parliamentary session" has "surpassed 50,000." That figure roughly matches the 49,545 tallied by the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) as of Saturday.