On Tuesday, an NGO reported that Iran had executed 12 prisoners in one mass execution in a jail in the country’s southeast.
An Iranian human rights group, Iran Human Rights (IHR), reports that it hung 11 men and one woman at the main jail of Zahedan in the province of Sistan-Baluchestan on Monday morning for either drug-related or murder offences.
Members of Iran’s Sunni Muslim Baluch ethnic group were among those killed, it was said, and they were all Sunni Muslims rather than Shiites.
Besides the six who were condemned to death for drug-related offences, there were also six who were found guilty of murder. It added the Iranian government had recorded or confirmed that none of the executions.
Only her surname Gargij was given to the lady who was put to death, and she was condemned to death for the murder of her husband, according to reports.
Exterminating Iran’s ethnic and religious minorities, particularly the Kurdish, Arab, and Baluch populations in its north and southwest and southeast and south-eastern regions, has long been a source of worry for human rights activists working in the country.
A quarter of all executions in 2021 were carried out on Baluch convicts, who make up just 2-6 percent of Iran’s population, according to Iranian Human Rights (IHR). Demonstrations over rising prices for essential products have prompted officials in Iran to increase the number of executions recently.
They executed twelve people on Monday in Zahedan, Iran’s banned National Council of Resistance reported.
The NCRI reported that the Catholic leadership had “intensified repression and murders, setting an unparalleled record in executions” in the face of growing civilian demonstrations.
According to IHR, Iran killed at least 333 individuals in 2021, a 25% increase over 2020. International human rights watchdog group Amnesty International has released its annual report on the worldwide usage of death sentences and found that the figure of 314 executions in Iran in 2021 was likely an underestimate.
“Death sentences were employed disproportionately against members of ethnic minorities for spurious allegations… and as a weapon of political repression,” Amnesty International alleged.
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