A pristine United Nations record aspiring that executions surged in Iran right through the era of August, chief professionals to induce the rustic’s executive to prohibit the illegal spree.
“We are deeply concerned by this sharp rise in executions,” U.N. professionals, together with particular rapporteurs on human rights, stated in a press let fall from the Workplace of the High Commissioner on Human Rights.
“According to information received, of the 93 executions in August, only a fraction is officially reported by the Islamic Republic of Iran, highlighting the urgent need for transparency,” the professionals added.
The U.N. reported that just about part of all executions performed closing era came about in accordance with alleged drug offenses, which the professionals wired went towards “international standards.”
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“Countries that retain the death penalty must ensure that individuals are not subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment throughout the criminal justice process,” the professionals stated.
Portraits are exhibited in the back of a noose as a placard reads “Executions pro day” in entrance of the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor) right through an illustration by way of supporters of the Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran in Berlin on Feb. 10, 2024. (Stefanie Bogs/AFP by the use of Getty Photographs)
“Wrongful executions are irreversible. The current implementation of the death penalty in the Islamic Republic of Iran leaves us extremely concerned that innocent individuals may have been executed,” the professionals added. “We renew our appeal to Iranian authorities to halt executions of all individuals sentenced to death,”
Drug offenses have transform a chief rationale for the Iranian executive to hold out executions, that have crash an eight-year top, according to Amnesty International. The World Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which counts Iran amongst its individuals, limits the demise penalty to just the “most serious crimes,” which doesn’t come with drug offenses.
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The non-profit alleges in a record exempted previous this yr that Iran’s executions began to extend following the 2022 unrest that resulted from the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died beneath suspicious instances nearest a crash with Iran’s morality police because of allegedly now not appropriately dressed in her hijab headband.
Iranian Excellent Chief Ali Khamenei attends a rite at Imam Khomeini Husseinya to commemorate Arbaeen in Tehran, Iran on Aug. 25, 2024. (Iran’s Excellent Chief Press Workplace / HANDOUT/Anadolu by the use of Getty Photographs)
Within the record, Amnesty World characterizes Iran’s usefulness of executions now not as a device of punishment however of intimidation, searching for to “instill fear among the population and tighten their grip on power.”
Iran this yr has carried out over 400 population, together with over a bundle girls – hanging the rustic on course to check the roughly 850 executions in 2023, maximum of which punished political dissidents.
Family participate in an illustration arranged by way of the “Women’s Life Freedom” motion to mark the primary yearly of Mahsa Amini’s demise on Sept. 16, 2023 in Paris. (Ameer Alhalbi/Getty Photographs)
“Never-mind the change at the top: Musical chairs between Iranian presidents has had zero bearing on the plight of the Iranian people to include rights violations and executions at home,” Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow on the Footing for Protection of Democracies, advised Fox Information Virtual.
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“Tehran’s true face is on display here,” Taleblu argued. “A rise in executions including for alleged drug-related offenses is a feature, not a bug, of the vision the Islamic Republic has for order at home.”
“Show trials, forced confessions, and violations of due process feature all too prominently in these death sentence cases,” he added.
Iranian individuals of the diaspora, activists, amassed in entrance of the German Federal International Workplace in Berlin right through the “United Against Executions in Iran” protest on Jan. 27, 2024. (Echo Iran/Center East Photographs/AFP by the use of Getty Photographs)
The U.N. highlighted the case of Reza Rasaei, an Iranina-Kurdish protester whom government punished according to a “confession reportedly obtained through torture.”
The federal government alleged that Rasaei used to be concerned within the demise of an Islamic Modern Shield Corps member, and it pursued execution even nearest co-defendants retracted their testimonies about his involvement and a forensic clinical examiner difficult Rasaei’s involvement.
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The particular rapporteurs handover as a part of the Particular Procedures staff at the Human Rights Council, pursuing fact-finding missions and tracking “mechanisms that address either specific country situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world.”
