Iran hands out more death sentences

COLOMBO (News 1st) - Iran has sentenced to death four people in connection with the recent anti-government protests in Iran.

Revolutionary Courts in Tehran said one of the unnamed "rioters" hit and killed a policeman with his car, the judiciary's Mizan news agency said.

The second possessed a knife and a gun, and the third blocked traffic and caused "terror", it alleged.

The fourth was convicted of a knife attack, Mizan reported late on Tuesday.

Human rights activists condemned the death sentences - which brought the total to five since Sunday - saying they were the results of unfair trials.