Judicial violence – At least 81 people were executed in August, far more than the 45 executions reported in July, according to UN experts
The repression through the use of the death penalty is in full swing in Iran. More than 400 people, including 15 women, have been executed in the country this year, UN experts said on Monday, concerned by the surge in executions in August.
At least 81 people were executed in August, about twice as many as the 45 executions reported in July, the independent experts said in a statement, without citing their sources. The group of experts is made up of six special rapporteurs and the five members of the UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls.
Experts ‘deeply concerned’
These experts, mandated by the UN Human Rights Council, are not speaking on behalf of the organisation. They say they are “deeply concerned by this sharp increase in the number of executions”.
In August, about half (41) of the executions were for drug-related offences, the experts said, recalling that the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Iran is a party, “limits the application of the death penalty to the ‘most serious crimes’, i.e. intentional homicides”. “Executions for breaches of the legislation(…) - 20minutes
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