Geneva, June 21 (AFP\/APP): Iran executed more than 100 people in the first three months of 2022, continuing a worrying upward trend, according to a report by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that was presented Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Speaking before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, UN deputy human rights chief Nada Al-Nashif presented Guterres’ latest report on Iran, decrying that executions in the country were on the rise.<\/p>\n
“While 260 individuals were executed in 2020, at least 310 individuals were executed in 2021, including at least 14 women,” she said, adding that the trend had continued this year.<\/p>\n
Between January 1 and March 20, she said, “at least 105 people were executed,” many of whom belonged to minority groups.”<\/p>\n
Guterres’s report had noted with deep concern the increase of executions for lesser crimes, including for drug-related offences, Nashif said.<\/p>\n
“The death penalty continues to be imposed on the basis of charges not amounting to ‘most serious crimes’, and in ways incompatible with fair trials standards,” she told the council.<\/p>\n
Nashif said that in March, 52 people sentenced to death on drug-related charges were transferred to Shiraz prison for execution.<\/p>\n
She also lamented the continued use of the death penalty for juvenile offenders, in violation of international law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Geneva, June 21 (AFP\/APP): Iran executed more than 100 people in the first three months of 2022, continuing a worrying upward trend, according to a report by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that was presented Tuesday. Speaking before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, UN […]<\/p>\n
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