abolish death penalty in Iran

BY Arash Nikzad
According to a report published on the website of the Human Rights Organization of Iran on July 10th, the organization registered 194 unofficial executions and 45 executions during this period.

  129 people were convicted to death in charge of drug-related crimes, while the members of Iranian parliament scrutinized the abolition of the death penalty for some of the narcotics trafficking-related crimes. Some MPs have asked the judiciary to refrain from executing several thousand prisoners sentenced to death for drug trafficking by the end of the review.

The report also states that three of the executed in recent months have been convicted of crimes committed at the age of under 18.

The United Nations and some other international organizations have identified Iran as one of the highest death rates in the world, and the Iranian judiciary has stated that most of these people have been executed for drug trafficking.

However, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zaid Raad Al-Hussein said last week that most death sentences in Iran are related to drug trafficking, saying that they are not "very serious crimes" according to international standards.

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