The regime of Iran has already executed 94 people so far this year, which implies a “remarkable increase” in the use of these penalties with respect to the months of January and February 2022.
“The authorities executed at least 94 people in the months of January and February alone,” said Amnesty International (AI) and the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center in a statement in which they also denounced that the regime is increasingly using “sexual violence and other types of torture” to extract forced confessions.
“It is heartbreaking that executions routinely occur amid the systematic use of torture-tainted ‘confessions’ to convict defendants in grossly unfair trials”, commented AI’s deputy regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, Diana Eltahawy.
On the other hand, NGOs warned of the “increasing use of the death penalty against persecuted minorities”. According to the report, since the beginning of the year, a person from the Arab minority has already died in this context of unfair trials Ahwazi along with 14 kurds and 13 baloch.
Eventually, it was identified Hasan Abyatexecuted in the prison of sepidatein Khuzestanalready Arash Ahmadiwho was murdered in the prison of diesel abbotin the province of kermanshahwest of Iran.
They also realized that at least a dozen others were sentenced to death, which represents “a frightening escalation in the use of the death penalty as a tool of repression against ethnic minorities,” the statement continued.
From AI they reiterated that the death penalty -the maximum existing punishment- is “cruel, inhuman and degrading” and, according to International Law, given as a result of an “unfair trial”, it constitutes “a deprivation of the right to life”.
A similar case is the one faced by the demonstrators detained in the protests launched after the death of the young Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini, which generated anger in the population and led to calls for “death to the dictator” and “end to the Islamic Republic”. .
In this context, both organizations called for the urgent cessation of this practice with which the regime seeks “sow fear that any person is repressed with brute force, either in the streets or by hanging”, said the director of the Center, Roya Boroumand.
“The world must act now to put pressure on the Iranian authorities to implement an official moratorium on executions, which overturn wrongful convictions and death sentencesand that they annul all the accusations linked to a peaceful participation in the demonstrations”, Eltahawy sentenced and concluded: “We urge all States to exercise universal jurisdiction over all Iranian officials who are reasonably suspected of having criminal responsibility for crimes under International Law and other serious violations of Human Rights”.
(With information from AFP and Europa Press)
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