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View all search resultsIran 2022 executions surge in bid to ‘spread fear’: Rights groups
The figure of at least 582 executions was the highest since 2015 in Iran and well above the figure of 333 in 2021.
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ran hanged 75 percent more people in 2022 that the previous years, two rights groups said on Thursday, denouncing an "execution machine" aimed at spreading fear as protests shook the country.
The figure of at least 582 executions was the highest since 2015 in Iran and well above the figure of 333 in 2021, the report by Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and Paris-based Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM) said.
Last year was marked by the eruption in September of nationwide protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old ethnic Kurd who had been arrested for allegedly violating the strict dress rules for women.
The authorities responded with a crackdown that saw four men hanged in protest-related cases, executions that prompted an international outcry.
IHR director Mahmood Amiry Moghaddam said that while the international reaction was keeping protest-related executions in check, Iran was pressing ahead with executions on other charges to intimidate the general population.
"The international reactions to the death sentences against protesters have made it difficult for the Islamic Republic to proceed with their executions," he said.
"To compensate, and in order to spread fear among people, the authorities have intensified the execution for non-political charges. These are the low-cost victims of the Islamic Republic's execution machine," he added.
