The United Nations Organization pointed out that crimes are mostly related to drugs.
According to United Nations Organization (UN)at least 209 people were executed in Iranespecially for drug-related crimes. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turkdenounced the “terribly” high number of executions this year, which rises to an average of more than ten a weekand could be even higher.
“On average, since the start of the year, more than 10 people have been executed every week in Iran, making it one of the countries with the most executions in the world“, Türk declared in the statement. Iran is the second country that executes the most people in the world, behind Chinaaccording to organizations defending human rights.
“At this rate, it is worrying to see that Iran continues on the same path as last year, when some 580 people were executed,” he continued, describing this balance as “abominable.” If this trend continues throughout the year, “it would represent one of the highest levels of the application of the death penalty in Iran since 2015”, the year in which they carried out 972 capital punishmentspointed Ravina Shamdasanispokesman for the High Commissioner.
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History of executions
This Monday, two men were executed by hanging for “desecrating the Koran” and “insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad” amid a rise in executions in Iran for blasphemy cases. At the beginning of the month, a dissident with dual Swedish and Iranian nationality, named Habib Chaab, convicted of “terrorism”. In recent months, Tehran has executed a citizen with a British passport and sentenced a German citizen to death.
Only a small number of countries impose and apply the death penalty, including Iran, China and USA. “Imposing the death penalty for drug-related offenses is incompatible with international human rights standards,” Türk warned.
He Human Rights Committee prohibits the imposition of the death penalty for crimes, except in the “most serious crimes”, which involve voluntary manslaughter, and among those drug offenses are not included.
Source: Ambito
