Iran Human Rights said it condemns executions for all charges and considers the execution of political prisoners on security-related charges a violation of international human rights law.
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Iran has hanged more than 500 people so far in 2022. based in norway iran human rights report According to , in 2022 this number has now crossed 500, which is the highest rate in five years. The report released on Sunday further revealed that the four men were executed on December 4 at the Rajai City Jail. They have been identified as Hossein Ordukhanzadeh, Shaheen Imani Mahmudabad, Milad Ashrafi Atbatan and Manochehar Bejandi. He was sentenced to death for collaborating with the Israeli intelligence services and for kidnapping by the Revolutionary Court.
Citing the Islamic Republic’s judiciary, the report said there were seven defendants in the case. The other three people were sentenced to 5-10 years imprisonment. Expressing opposition to the death penalty, Iran Human Rights said it condemns executions for all charges and considers the execution of political prisoners on security-related charges a violation of international human rights law. Mahmoud Amiri-Moghaddam, director of Iran Human Rights, said that these individuals were sentenced to death without due process and a fair trial. His sentence lacked all legal validity.
Last year 333 people were sentenced to death
According to Iran Human Rights, at least 333 people were executed here last year. Of all the deaths included in the 2021 report, 83.5 percent (a total of 278 convictions) were not announced by the authorities. According to the report, at least 183 executions (55 percent of all executions) were for murder charges. And 126 death sentences (38 percent) were for drug-related charges, compared to 25 (10 percent) in 2020.
17 women were killed
Last year, at least 2 juvenile offenders were hanged and 17 women were killed in 2020. At least 139 executions in 2021 and more than 3,758 executions since 2010 are based on capital punishment. At least 705 prisoners on death row for murder have been pardoned by the families of murder victims under Qisas laws.
penal code based on sharia
According to the report, as long as the penal code is based on Sharia, Iranian officials consider its removal a red line that cannot be crossed. According to the IPC, murder is punishable by Qissas and allows the victim’s family to seek death as retribution.
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