Thousands of Iranians chanted slogans against Iran regime president as he visited Paris

Despite the friendly atmosphere, Rouhani could not avoid facing huge protests as thousands of people denounced Iran’s policy towards Syria and violation of human rights. Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran, with headquarters outside Paris, held a demonstration, and 61 lawmakers signed an open letter to Hollande condemning Iran’s human rights record, with executions on the rise, and what it called its “strategy of chaos” in the Middle East.
Across the city, some 800 protesters waving Iranian flags joined a four-kilometer march to Les Invalides, the military complex that includes Napoleon’s tomb where Rouhani was welcomed earlier in the day.

Iran is the world’s most prolific executioner of offenders convicted while juveniles, Amnesty International said Tuesday, accusing the Islamic republic of using torture and ill-treatment to extract confessions from minors. The rights group said Iran “tops the grim global table of executioners of juvenile offenders” with 73 recorded executions between 2005 and 2015, including at least four last year. “Iran is one of the few countries that continues to execute juvenile offenders in blatant violation of the absolute legal prohibition on the use of the death penalty against people under the age of 18 years at the time of the crime,” said Amnesty’s Middle East deputy director, Said Boumedouha.