Iranian state media has aired at least 97 confessions from protesters since Dec. 28, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency. The U.S.-based group says testimony it has collected from those released shows these confessions are coerced, often following torture. The group says such coerced confessions can lead to severe consequences, including state executions. The organization also says this pattern of forced confessions has been used repeatedly in Iran but that the number of broadcast confessions since the protests began is unprecedented. Iran executed at least 12 people for espionage in the past six months.