2023-05-16 03:49:00
Iran executes so many times! – AFP reports that the Iranian Ministry of Justice has taken action execution Five convicted in drug smuggling cases by hanging on Monday, May 15.
According to Mizan Online, Mojtaba Gahramani, Chief Justice of Hormuzgaon Province, said: southern part of the country That all criminals and armed drug smugglers are sentenced to death by hanging, according to the Iranian Supreme Court. It said authorities hanged all the convicts this morning at Bandar Abbas and Minab prisons in Hormusgaon province.
The latest executions brought the number of people executed for drug trafficking to eight in less than a week following Iran executed three drug gang members on Wednesday. Iran executes more people per year than any other country in the world, with the exception of China, which has not been disclosed.
According to a report by a human rights group including Amnesty International (Amnesty International) on Monday that Iran executes two prisoners following being convicted of insulting the Quran and the Islamic Prophet Mohammad. ignite many countries including the United States statement condemning the Iranian government
UN rights chief Volker Turk Warned of Iran’s disgusting execution record this year. And that Iran executes an average of more than 10 prisoners each week. More than 210 people have been executed in Iran since the beginning of this year, most of them for drug-related offences.
But the UN believes the actual number of people executed is likely to be higher. Because in 2022 Iran hanged prisoners 75% more than the previous year.
The Iranian Human Rights Group (IHR) and Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM) said in a joint report in April. At least 582 people were executed in Iran in 2022, the highest number of executions in the country since 2015.
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