Iran executed no less than 280 folks final yr, in response to figures revealed on Thursday by the UN particular rapporteur on Iran.
Presenting a report back to the UN Human Rights Council, Javaid Rehman stated the variety of executions for prices associated to narcotics legal guidelines had risen.
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“In 2021, no less than 280 people, together with no less than 10 ladies, had been executed,” he stated.
He stated he had additionally been knowledgeable that three “little one offenders” — the time period the United Nations makes use of for an individual below the age of 18 on the time of conviction — had been executed in 2021.
The variety of ladies being executed had additionally risen, in response to the report.
The report stated greater than 80 of the executions, together with that of a girl and no less than 4 Afghans, had been for medication offences, in comparison with 25 in 2020.
Rehman noticed that final yr noticed a rise in executions of individuals from minority communities, with over 40 Baluch and over 50 Kurds put to demise.
In his report, the particular rapporteur, who has been denied entry to Iran, indicated that he had continued to obtain constant data on the usage of confessions obtained by torture as proof in instances carrying the demise penalty.
Rehman additionally condemned “deadly and extreme drive” in opposition to peaceable gatherings over entry to water and the affect of water shortages on day by day life.
And he condemned the follow of “trying to silence those that name for accountability.”
“There are a lot of instances of harassment and threats in opposition to households of victims and others calling for justice… In some instances, people are subjected to prison prosecution merely for having referred to as for justice,” he stated.
Rehman added that he was additionally involved by the quantity deaths in detention in obscure circumstances into which there had been no inquiry.
Between January 1 and December 1, 2021, no less than 11 Kurdish prisoners died in jail in circumstances that weren’t clear, in response to the report.
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