Shaheed says in his latest report that Iran continues to execute more individuals per capita than any other country in the world, and 2015’s implementation of the death penalty is on track to be Iran’s highest in 25 years.
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The government view, Shaheed said, is that the effects of drug trafficking on the health and security of the Iranian people make drug-related offenses “most serious” crimes that deserve to be considered capital offenses though he said the authorities denied a majority of the executions documented by human rights organizations and requested proof.
Iran has violated worldwide regulation by hanging two juvenile offenders inside the previous two weeks. “Their response to my current report has been the most substantive over the past 4-1/2 years”, he said.
UNITED NATIONS- The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran warned Tuesday that there has been a disturbing surge in executions in Iran this year.
The report details how Iranian authorities have stated that 80 percent of people now on death row – a number that Amnesty said equates to “several thousand” – are there due to drug-related offenses.
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While many in the West, especially the United States claimed Iran will improve its human rights record following a nuclear deal with world powers, a U.N. human rights monitor reported no such results have been seen. Nevertheless, a few 700 people have already been executed in Iran in 2015 & the country is “possibly on track to exceed 1,000 by the end of the year”, Shaheed stated.
