 In outside Africa, Iran's judiciary has sentenced three more anti-government protesters to death on charges of waging war on God. This however defies growing international criticism over its fierce crackdown on demonstrators. Iran hanged two other men on January 7, one of them a karate champion with several national titles in its attempts to stamp out demonstrations. The bar siege forces affiliated with the elite revolutionary guards have been on or at the forefront of the state clampdown on unrest sparked by the death of 22-year-old Masa Amini while in custody of Iran's Morality Police on September 16.