Iran's top court has ordered the retrial of a third death row inmate sentenced over the nationwide protests that started more than 100 days ago, the judiciary said Saturday

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Clashes in Kurdish regionNorway-based human rights group Hengaw reported deadly clashes Saturday in Javanroud, a city in Iran's Kurdish-populated west, where residents marked the end of a 40-day mourning period for slain protesters.Security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas, killing at least one person and wounding several others at a local cemetery, Hengaw said, in a report that could not be independently verified.Footage shared by protest monitor 1500tasvir and verified by AFP shows the crowd in the Sistan-Baluchistan provincial capital chanting "Death to the dictator", taking aim at Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, was hanged in public on December 12 after being sentenced to death by a court in the city of Mashhad for killing two members of the security forces with a knife.The judiciary has said nine others have been sentenced to death, while IHR said this week dozens of protesters face charges that carry potential capital punishment."

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