A report by the United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights cited summary executions and gross violations of human rights that "may amount to crimes against humanity".
Yemen called the execution a flagrant violation of human rights and there was further criticism from Pakistan, Afghanistan and India.
In recent years, the UN and the world have been criticised for overlooking evidence of North Korea's use of summary executions and its systematic abuse of human rights while focusing attention on Pyongyang's ballistic and nuclear weapons programmes.
According to Human Rights Watch, an NGO, at least two of Mr Ahmadinejad's ministers have been involved in systematic abuses of human rights, including executions of dissidents.What is Mr Ahmadinejad up to?
Britain continues, in effect, to turn a blind eye to Saudi's human rights abuses, its appalling record of judicial executions, and its repression and jailing of human rights campaigners in its Bahrain satrap.
Despite all this evidence of human rights abuses and executions, the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime doesn't seem to be planning to change its funding scheme anytime soon.
Imprisonment, torture, and execution were rampant, and the scale and scope of human rights violations were hard to comprehend.
(Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov is accused of a variety of human rights abuses, including torture, kidnap and execution by boiling).
A number of human rights groups raised questions about the manner of the execution as well as the original trial that Mr Guru received.
In 34 rulings, the European court of human rights has consistently found Russia responsible for torture, "disappearances," and extrajudicial executions in Chechnya.
A cursory look at the Islamic Republic's list of human rights violations in the past seven and a half years brings up the executions as the top concern.
