The Islamic Republic’s authorities have executed three more prisoners amid a significant spike in the use of capital punishment.
The executions of Arslan Habibi, Jabbar Keyfari, and Amir-Hossein Rostami were carried out at Hamedan Central Prison on Thursday.
Tehran has executed a record number of prisoners while global attention has been focused on the threat of all-out war between Iran and Israel, using the tensions as cover to carry out the killings, according to human rights organizations.
At least 166 people were executed in October, according to the Norway-based Iran Human Rights Organization.
This marked the highest number of executions in a single month since the organization began documenting them 17 years ago.
According to Amnesty International’s report, Iran has reached its highest level of executions in the past eight years, with the judiciary of the Islamic Republic executing 853 people in 2023 alone.
The report indicates that 481 executions – more than half of the total – were related to drug crimes.
This represents an 89 per cent increase in death penalties for drug-related offenses compared to 2022, when 255 people were executed.
Source: Iran Wire