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Iran Turning Prisons Into Mass Killing Fields 853 Inmates Executed Amid WAR on Drugs
--Iran executes 853 people in eight-year high amid relentless repression and renewed war on drugs
PLUS Iran Vows to Make EVIL Israel Regret Deadly Embassy Missile Strike
--The world is bracing to see how Iran will respond to the Israeli strike that killed a top Iranian general in an escalation of the conflict between the two countries
MailOnline 5 APR 2024
Iran Turning Prisons Into Mass Killing Fields 853 Inmates Executed
Iran is turning prisons into "mass killing fields" after at least 853 prisoners were executed in 2023 following a new "war on drugs", a devastating new report from Amnesty International has revealed.
Human rights groups have expressed their concerns that authorities are using exeuctions as a way to instil fear throughout members of society
In the findings released on Thursday, Iranian authorities have "persisted with their state-sanctioned killing spree which has turned prisons into killing fields", human-rights group Armesty said. It is a staggering 48 percent increase on the previous year and 56 percent of the executions were drug-related, the report added.
It follows two recent reports from Iran Human Rights (IHR) and Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM) which said a slightly lower figure of 834 prisoners were executed in 2023. The increase in executions comes after Iran was thrown into violent upheaval in September 2022 and nine people were executed in cases relating to protests.
Iranian authorities have "persisted with their state-sanctioned killing spree which has turned prisons into killing fields", Armesty revealed.
Human rights groups have expressed their concerns that authorities are using executions as a way to instill fear throughout members of society and prevent further protests. There have been at least 95 executions already recorded up to March 20, according to Amnesty, who said that its numbers were "minimum figures" and the real death toll would be higher.
The group said in its report: "Without a robust global response, Amnesty International fears that the Iranian authorities will continue using the death penalty as a tool of oppression to execute thousands more people in the coming years."
Adding: "Our shocking findings on the Iranian authorities’ ongoing assault on the right to life underscore the urgent need for the international community to press the Iranian authorities for an immediate moratorium on all executions", the report added.
Some of the people executed include 17-year-old Hamidreza Azari who was hanged in November last year in Razavi Khorasan after he was convicted following a deadly stabbing when he was just 16. However, his age "was misrepresented" as 18 by state media to "evade accountability," Amnesty said, adding that it had seen his birth certificate.
Meanwhile, the surge in a number of executions for drug offences was a concern for Amnesty. The group said Iran's anti-narcotics legislation was modified in 2017 and drug offences were on the slide in 2018 and 2020 before suddenly increasing last year.
An empty cell inside the political ward at the high security Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran
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Iran Vows to Make EVIL Israel Regret Deadly Embassy Missile Strike That Killed Top General
Irans' Supreme Leader has vowed to make "evil" Israel "regret" a missile strike on the Iranian embassy in Syria that killed one of his top generals.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the air strikle a "crime
Mohammad Reza Zahedi was killed in the strike
In response to the death of Sardar Mohammad Reza Zahedi, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei declared: "We will make them regret this crime and others like it, by God's will. The evil regime will be punished by the hands of our brave men."
The Revolutionary Guard, Irans' elite military force, confirmed that seven of its members were killed in the airstrike on Irans' consulate in Damascus, Syria.
Syrian officials and state media have blamed Israel for the attack.
EVIL MANIAC Netanyahu is a ‘dangerous psychopath’ targeting Arabs, left-wing Jews
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