Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2014), para. 10
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(b) The continuing alarming high frequency of the carrying-out of the death penalty in the absence of internationally recognized safeguards, including public executions, notwithstanding the issuance of a circular by the former head of the judiciary prohibiting public executions, and secret group executions, as well as reports of executions undertaken without the notification of the prisoner’s family members or legal counsel;