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Iran revokes death penalties handed to three protesters  

The executions were reduced to jail terms in a controversial case that had drawn a furious public backlash.  
An exhibition calling for an end to executions in Iran on Trafalgar Square on October 10, 2020, in London, England.

A court in the Iranian capital handed five-year jail sentences to three anti-government protesters, officially reversing their death penalties issued at a trial in 2020.  

The three, Amir-Hossein Moradi, Saeed Tamjidi and Mohammad Rajabi, were detained during the country's November 2019 unrest that was triggered by an unpopular fuel price hike plan.  

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