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The French activist protest during Rouhani visit to Paris

PARIS, January 28, 2016- A woman hanging from a noose-like rope from a Paris bridge has sent a message to visiting Hassan Rouhani, AP reported.
“Welcome Rouhani, Executioner of Freedom,” read a huge banner across the pedestrian bridge over the Seine River near the Eiffel Tower.
The protest Thursday by a French activist group calling attention to the large number of executions in Iran.
Iran is one of the world’s largest users of the death penalty, ranking second behind China in 2014, according to Amnesty International.
Sarah Constantin, the activist who hung from the bridge, said they organized the “public hanging” to call attention meeting with Rouhani.to those executed for political reasons and put pressure on French President Francois Hollande to bring up human rights in his

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