Authorities in Iran executed 209 people in 2023. This was announced during a briefing by Ravina Shamdasani, representative of the UN Human Rights Office. Reuters.
“UN human rights chief Volker Turk today expressed his concern about the startlingly high number of executions in Iran this year,” Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva. said.
He noted that on average, more than 10 people are executed each week in Iran. Most of the convictions were for drug-related crimes.
It was previously reported that two people were in Iran. prisoner and was executed for blasphemy. According to the court’s website, Mizan, Yousef Mehrdad and Sadrolla Fazeli Zare were executed for crimes such as blasphemy, insulting religion, the prophet and other shrines.
In March, Swedish authorities prisoner death penalty for an Iranian citizen with dual citizenship.