Executions in Iran rose by 25 percent last year, a report by two leading non-governmental organizations said yesterday, expressing alarm over a surge in the numbers executed for drug offenses and also the hanging of at least 17 women.
The rate of executions in Iran also accelerated after the election in June last year of former judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi to the presidency, said the report by Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and France’s Together Against the Death Penalty.
The report urged world powers negotiating with Iran on reviving a deal on its nuclear program to put use of capital punishment in
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