...which are usually entirely different from personal
liberty...
monitor reported on Monday.
"At least 354 people including six women were executed in the first six months of 2023," read the report from the Norway-based Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
Human Rights (IHR).
IHR says that 206 of the executions were for drug-related charges in "a 126% rise compared to the same period last year."
The Oslo-based organization also reported that 71 (20 percent) of those executed were from the Baluch minority.
Baluchis are a mainly Sunni ethnic minority in Iran, living predominantly in the southeastern Baluchestan region, near the border with Pakistain. The region was also heavily targeted during the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)
According to the monitor, the Iranian officials reported only 43 of the recorded executions which make up only 12 percent of the total.
Iran executed at least 576 people last year, a significant increase from 314 in 2021, making it the country with the second-highest rate of known executions during 2022, according to the annual report from
This year, after last fall's widespread demonstrations and a crackdown on the drug trade, Iran has carried out an alarming number of executions. Amnesty estimated at least 282 people were executed during the first five months of 2023.
"The death penalty
is used to create societal fear and prevent more protests," Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddem, IHR director said."The majority of those killed are low-cost victims of the killing machine, drug defendants who are from the most marginalized communities," he added.
In June, Amnesty described the increase in Iran's drug-related executions as a "war on the poor", claiming that it has mainly targeted the country's marginalized and economically disadvantaged communities.