Execution of 138 people in the past 3 months in Iran
The Iran Human Rights organization, based on a report published on March 16, 2023, states that since the beginning of this calendar year, from January 1, 2023, onward, 138 people have been executed in Iran.
It is said that 88 of these individuals were sentenced to death on charges related to drugs.
The report adds that in just the past 15 days, from March 1 to March 15, 2023, 29 prisoners have been executed in Iranian prisons, averaging two people per day.
The Iran Human Rights organization has warned about the high number of executions in Iran, particularly the sharp increase in executions related to drug offenses.
Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the director of this organization, said on the sidelines of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs meeting held in Vienna that the sharp increase in drug-related executions since last year shows that the reform of the drug law has not had a lasting impact on the number of drug-related executions. In the Islamic Republic, it is not a change in the law, but only international pressure and high political costs that can prevent the indiscriminate execution of citizens under the name of drug crimes.