GENEVA - The United Nations said yesterday that at least 80 people, or perhaps as many as 95 have already been executed in Iran this year, an increase in recourse to punishment reduced hopes for reforms in human rights in the era of President Hassan Rohani.
Rohani and released dozens of political prisoners in September, raising hopes that it will also improve the human rights situation in the state after China in the list of Amnesty International states most asylum to the death penalty.
The Ravenna Chamdasana spokeswoman for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights at a news conference, "There have been some encouraging signs last year when he released political prisoners .. but executions apparently increased in the last few weeks."
She continued, "We regret that the new government did not change its approach to the death penalty and still use the death penalty against a wide range of crimes. Urge the government to halt executions and immediately suspended."
She said that Iran executed last year between 500 and 625 people, including 28 women and at least two of the events.
She added, "also executed a number of individuals and secretly executed at least seven people in public this year." She added that most of them were executed by hanging.
She Roya Boromand director Abdul Rahman Al Boromand Foundation, a US-based monitor the implementation of the death penalty in Iran, that the possession or transfer of drugs, "even in relatively small amounts" of less than 500 grams usually leads to death.
She told Reuters: "There are more than 100 crime punishable by death," and "If the indulgence of the international community with the execution of drug dealers, it is called by the police and the judiciary to do what they like."
Chamdasana revealed that two men from the minority Ahwazi Arab and two Hadi Rashidi Hashim Shabani Amuri accused of "fighting God", corruption and violation of national security were executed in January after a trial deemed unfair.
He was not allowed to United Nations investigator on human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed to enter the country but he never submitted reports of serious violations, including executions, torture, based on hundreds of interviews.
Iran has accused Shahid, a former foreign minister of the Maldives to receive a bribe from the United States. Shahid denied the accusation
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