Not less than 901 individuals have been reportedly executed in Iran final yr, together with about 40 in a single week in December, in keeping with the UN human rights chief.
“It’s deeply disturbing that but once more we see a rise within the variety of individuals subjected to the dying penalty in Iran year-on-year,” Volker Türk mentioned. “It’s excessive time Iran stemmed this ever-swelling tide of executions.”
The entire is the very best recorded in 9 years and marks a 6% improve from 2023, when 853 individuals have been executed.
A lot of the executions have been for drug-related offences, however dissidents and other people linked to the 2022 protests have been additionally executed, in keeping with the UN. There was additionally an increase within the variety of ladies executed.
Türk urged Iranian authorities to halt all additional executions and to position a moratorium on the usage of the dying penalty with a view to in the end abolishing it.
“The dying penalty is incompatible with the basic proper to life and raises the unacceptable danger of executing harmless individuals. And, to be clear, it might probably by no means be imposed for conduct that’s protected below worldwide human rights legislation,” he warned.
A spokeswoman for the UN human rights workplace instructed reporters that its figures had come from a number of organisations which it thought-about dependable, together with Iran’s Human Rights Activists Information Company (HRANA), Iran Human Rights (IHR) and Hengaw.
On Monday, Norway-based IHR said in a report that in at the very least 31 ladies have been executed throughout 2024 – the very best quantity because it started monitoring the dying penalty 17 years in the past.
Nineteen of them have been sentenced to dying after being convicted of homicide, in keeping with the report. They included, Leila Ghaemi, who IHR mentioned had strangled her husband after she got here dwelling in the future to search out him and his pals raping her younger daughter.
The opposite 12 ladies have been convicted of drug-related offences. Amongst them was Parvin Mousavi, who IHR mentioned had been her household’s breadwinner and had been paid about €15 ($15.60) to move what she was instructed was medication, however turned out to be 5kg of morphine.
Activists say medicine offences don’t meet the brink of “most critical crimes” to which the dying penalty should be restricted below worldwide legislation,
A separate report from Hengaw, a Kurdish human rights group, mentioned that greater than half of these executed final yr have been from Iran’s ethnic minorities, together with 183 Kurds.
The UN’s fact-finding mission on Iran mentioned in August that ethnic and non secular minorities had been disproportionately impacted by the federal government’s crackdown on dissent since 2022, when the nationwide “Girl, Life, Freedom” protests erupted in response to the dying in custody of a younger Kurdish girl detained by morality police for not sporting a “correct” hijab.
HRANA, in the meantime, reported that it had documented the execution of 5 juvenile offenders. Worldwide legislation prohibits the usage of capital punishment in all circumstances wherein the accused was below 18 on the time of their alleged offence.
Iran accounted for 74% of all recorded executions worldwide in 2023, in keeping with the human rights group Amnesty Worldwide.
These figures excluded China, which Amnesty mentioned was thought to execute 1000’s of individuals annually, however the place information on the dying penalty was categorized.
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, 2025-01-07 12:58:00