Iran could have no mercy for drug traffickers, warned Lawyer Normal Mohammad Movahedi-Azad amid rising issues in regards to the nation’s alarming charge of drug-related executions.
“We could have no mercy on the criminals related to violent crimes, particularly the drug traffickers who’re dying sellers and burn folks’s lives with the fireplace of habit,” he stated on Saturday.
In accordance with Amnesty International’s report, Iran carried out not less than 853 executions previously 12 months, marking the best determine in eight years, greater than half of these linked to drug-related offenses.
In April, 82 Iranian and worldwide human rights teams referred to as on the United Nations Workplace on Medicine and Crime (UNODC) to suspend its cooperation with Iran till it halts drug-related executions.
The coalition highlighted that prisoners charged with drug offenses are sentenced to dying by the Revolutionary Courts in Iran based mostly on “torture-tainted confessions, with out due course of and truthful trial rights and infrequently with out entry to a lawyer.”
“We’re involved that a whole bunch extra might be executed within the coming months if we don’t improve the political price of those executions for the Islamic Republic. We name on all human rights organizations and activists to participate in a particular world marketing campaign to cease drug-related executions in Iran,” the assertion learn.
Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the Director of the Norway-based Iran Human Rights Group, warned that the UNODC has remained silent in regards to the sharp hike in drug-related executions within the nation, whereas it cooperates with Tehran on combating drug trafficking.
The drug-related executions are “geared toward instilling concern and stopping extra protests” and have been carried out “with none political price and penalties,” he burdened.
