Iran Human Rights launched data on Thursday which exhibits Iran executed 142 folks in Could, making it the best variety of Iranian executions in a single month since 2015.
A few of the fees used to justify executions this 12 months embrace blasphemy and adultery. Iran executed Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare after discovering them responsible of blasphemy and “insulting the prophet,” together with different actions together with burning the Quran and insulting Islamic sanctities. Ahmad Nikouyi was executed for adultery because of allegations he had sexual relations with a married girl.
On Could 9, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk known as on Iran to finish the dying penalty or halt executions as execution numbers proceed to rise. He stated:
On common up to now this 12 months, over 10 persons are put to dying every week in Iran, making it one [of] the world’s highest executors. Since 1 January, sources say at the least 209 folks have been executed — largely for drug associated offenses and a disproportionately excessive quantity representing minorities.
Amnesty Worldwide reported on the escalation of the death penalty and unfair trials in Iran. As of March, 28 members of the Ahwazi Arab and Baluchi ethnic minorities have been executed, with a majority of the costs stemming from drug-related offenses.
There was a 76 p.c enhance within the variety of executions in Iran from Could 2022. Iran not too long ago executed three males after they had been discovered responsible of fees of “enmity against god” for his or her involvement in protests over Mahsa Amini‘s dying from 2022.
Source / Picture: jurist.org
