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/ A report by two non-governmental organizations printed in the present day, Tuesday, revealed that the authorities in Iran will perform loss of life sentences in opposition to 834 individuals in the course of the yr 2023, the very best toll since 2015, in keeping with Agence France-Presse.
The variety of loss of life sentences carried out by hanging in Iran elevated by about 43 p.c final yr, in comparison with the yr 2022.
It’s only the second time in additional than 20 years that greater than 800 individuals have been executed in Iran, after 972 loss of life sentences have been carried out in 2015, in keeping with a report by the “Human Rights in Iran” group based mostly in Norway, and the World Alliance In opposition to the Dying Penalty, based mostly in Paris.
The 2 organizations accused Tehran of utilizing the loss of life penalty “as a method of spreading worry at dwelling” within the wake of widespread protests that swept the nation within the final months of 2022, after the loss of life of the younger girl Mahsa Amini, after she was arrested by the morality police, on the grounds of not adhering to Iran’s strict costume code.
The director of the Human Rights Group in Iran, Mahmoud Amiri Moghaddam, mentioned, “Sowing societal worry is the regime’s solely technique to cling to energy, and the loss of life penalty is its most essential instrument.”
Amiri Moghaddam thought-about the variety of executions in Iran in 2023 to be a “large toll.”
In keeping with the report, the Iranian judicial authorities executed 9 individuals in circumstances associated to assaulting safety forces, in the course of the protests that prolonged between September 2022 and the tip of the identical yr.
Of those, two individuals have been executed in 2022, six in 2023, and one individual to date in 2024.
There was a rise in executions in different circumstances, particularly these associated to drug trafficking, after a decline lately.
The report defined: “There’s specific concern concerning the dramatic rise in drug-related executions in 2023, which rose to 471, an 18-fold enhance from these recorded in 2020.”
The report indicated that members of ethnic minorities, particularly the Baloch in southern Iran, represent the biggest proportion of these executed for convictions in circumstances associated to drug trafficking.
He added that “a minimum of 167 Baloch individuals have been executed in 2023, representing 20 p.c of the overall variety of loss of life sentences carried out,” whereas members of this minority represent solely 5 p.c of the overall inhabitants in Iran.
Whereas nearly all of loss of life sentences are carried out behind jail partitions, the report reported 7 public executions throughout 2023.
Amongst those that have been executed final yr have been 22 girls, the very best quantity amongst girls in a decade.
The report indicated that 15 of them have been convicted of homicide, noting that ladies who kill an abusive associate or relative face the chance of being sentenced to loss of life.