Iran executes 853 people in eight-year high amid relentless …
WebNews. April 4, 2024. Iran executes 853 people in eight-year high amid relentless repression and renewed ‘war on drugs’. Robust international action is urgently needed to halt a horrifying surge in executions that saw Iran’s prisons transformed into sites of mass killings in 2023, said Amnesty International.
Executions in Iran hit 8-year high in 2023 - Al Jazeera
WebMar 5, 2024 · Iran hanged at least 834 people in 2023, the second-highest number of executions in two decades, according to a report released by rights groups.
Iran executions rise sharply to 834 last year 'to instil societal fear ...
Web5 March 2024. By Sophie Abdulla,BBC News. EPA. People protest outside the Iranian embassy in Rome on 10 December 2022. Executions in Iran have surged for a second year running to 834,...
Scores of executions feared in Iran as 23-year-old hanged in …
WebMon 12 Dec 2022 14.00 EST. Fears are growing that Iran is preparing to execute scores more protesters after authorities hanged a 23-year-old man from a crane, in a public killing carried out...
Iran executions: Alarming rise in use of death penalty in 2021 - BBC
Web28 April 2022. Anadolu Agency. People protested against Iran's use of the death penalty at an event in London last October. Executions in Iran rose alarmingly by 25% last year and surged...
Iran: Ex-child bride among three women executed in one day
WebJul 28, 2022 · Iranian authorities put three women to death on Wednesday for murdering their husbands, a human rights charity says. According to the Iran Human Rights Group they were among 32 people...
Iran: Horrific wave of executions must be stopped
WebNews. July 27, 2022. Iran: Horrific wave of executions must be stopped. The Iranian authorities have embarked on an execution spree, killing at least 251 people between 1 January and 30 June 2022, according to research by the Abdorrahman Boroumand Centre for Human Rights in Iran and Amnesty International.
Record executions, large-scale arrests and detentions: New Iran …
WebJun 21, 2023 · The latest UN report on the human rights situation in Iran paints a grim picture of a record number of executions in 2022, arrests of thousands of children and numerous allegations of torture...
Iran: Alarming Surge in Executions | Human Rights Watch
WebMay 12, 2023 · According to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), in 2022, Iranian authorities executed 565 people, including 5 who were under 18 at the time they allegedly committed the crime....
Iran execution: Man publicly hanged from crane amid protests
WebDec 12, 2022 · By JON GAMBRELL. Published 2:47 PM PDT, December 12, 2022. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran executed a second prisoner on Monday convicted over crimes committed during the nationwide protests challenging the country’s theocracy, publicly hanging him from a construction crane as a gruesome warning to others.
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