Iran continues to violate human rights and carry out the death penalty
UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced that Iran executed more than 100 people in the first 3 months of 2022.
During her presentation of the latest report on Iran to the Human Rights Council yesterday, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif said: Around 260 people were executed in 2020 and at least 310 in 2021, according to AFP.
“The death penalty continues to be imposed on charges that do not amount to the most serious crimes, and in ways that are contrary to fair trial standards”, she said.
Al-Nashif also condemned other human rights violations in Iran, especially with regard to protests over a range of social, political and economic challenges over the past year.
The Iranian judiciary sentenced to death a person convicted of killing two clerics in the city of Mechhed in northwestern Iran last April, according to a judicial spokesman, on June 7th.
Earlier this year, Iranian authorities executed two people who took part in the December 2018 protests on the grounds of poor living conditions and deteriorating local currency.
Head of the judiciary in Iran’s western Lorestan province, Mohammad Razm, said: “Two participants in the 2018 unrest were executed”, he said, claiming they had confessed to “destabilizing” the province.
“The two were convicted of setting fire to a petrol station in Khorramabad, the capital of Lorestan, killing two security personnel”, the official was quoted by the ISNA news agency as saying.
