Rights teams have expressed alarm over the numbers of girls executed in Iran. (Representational)
Nicosia, Cyprus:
Iran has executed greater than 500 folks thus far in 2022, excess of in the entire of final 12 months, a rights group stated Monday.
Norway-based group Iran Human Rights instructed AFP at the very least 504 folks had now been executed in Iran this 12 months and that it was nonetheless working to substantiate further circumstances of individuals stated to have been hanged.
The determine comes as concern grows that the authorities will make in depth use of the demise penalty towards folks concerned within the anti-regime protests which have erupted in Iran since September.
IHR’s depend contains 4 individuals who official media stated had been put to demise on Sunday accused of working with Israel’s intelligence service.
The rights group stated they had been executed in Rajai Shahr jail in Karaj exterior Tehran — also referred to as Gohardasht — inside simply seven months of arrest.
“These people had been sentenced to demise with out due course of or a good trial behind the closed doorways of the Revolutionary Courtroom,” stated IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam in an announcement. “Their sentences lacked all authorized validity.”
“These executions are meant to create societal worry and divert public consideration from the Islamic republic’s intelligence failures,” he added.
One other of these lately hanged was a lady executed on Saturday in Dastgerd in central Iran accused of murdering her father-in-law, IHR stated.
Rights teams have expressed alarm over the numbers of girls executed in Iran, typically on fees of murdering parters or family in abusive relationships.
IHR stated that the numbers executed this 12 months are already the best in 5 years.
In keeping with its knowledge, at the very least 333 folks had been executed in 2021, a 25 % enhance in comparison with 267 in 2020.
Amnesty Worldwide in the meantime put the variety of recorded executions in Iran final 12 months at 314 — increased than in every other nation worldwide, it says, whereas noting such knowledge is just not accessible for China, the place it believes annual executions run into the hundreds.
Six folks have already been sentenced to demise over Iran’s protests in what IHR calls “present trials with out entry to their attorneys and due course of.”
It says 26 folks, together with three minors, are at the moment going through fees that might see them hanged.
The authorities have described these accused as rioters who attacked safety forces and public buildings, however the circumstances of the circumstances are disputed by activists.
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