Iran Hangs 12 Baluchi Prisoners In One Day: Report
Paris: Iran has executed a mass execution of 12 inmates at a jail in its southeast, an NGO stated on Tuesday, as challenge grows over the growing variety of executions withinside the Islamic republic.
The eleven guys and one female — convicted both on drugs-associated or homicide expenses — have been hanged on Monday morning withinside the important jail of Zahedan in Sistan-Baluchestan province near the borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan, Norway-primarily based totally Iran Human Rights (IHR) stated.
They have been all individuals of the Baluch ethnic minority who especially adhere to the Sunni pressure of Islam in preference to the Shiism this is dominant in Iran, it added.
Of the 12, six have been sentenced to loss of life for drug-associated expenses and 6 have been sentenced for homicide. None of the executions were stated through home media or showed through officers in Iran, it stated.
The female carried out — recognized handiest through her surname Gargij — become sentenced for the homicide of her husband and arrested in 2019, it stated.
Activists have lengthy expressed challenge that executions in Iran disproportionately goal individuals of Iran’s ethnic and spiritual minorities, substantially Kurds withinside the northwest, Arabs withinside the southwest and Baluch withinside the southeast.
“Data accrued through Iran Human Rights suggests that Baluch prisoners accounted for 21 percentage of all executions in 2021, at the same time as handiest representing 2–6 percentage of Iran’s population,” IHR added.
There has additionally been challenge over a latest upsurge of executions in Iran, because the country’s leaders are faced with protests over charge rises for fundamental goods.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran, outlawed withinside the country, additionally stated that the 12 executions had taken location in Zahedan on Monday.
“Facing increasing famous protests, the clerical regime has intensified repression and killings, placing an exceptional document in executions,” the NCRI stated.
According to IHR, as a minimum 333 human beings have been carried out in Iran in 2021, a 25-percentage growth in comparison to 2020.
Amnesty International, in its annual file on use of the loss of life penalty worldwide, stated executions in 2021 rose through 28 percentage in Iran in comparison to the preceding yr to 314 however warned that the discern become in all likelihood an underestimate.
“Death sentences have been used disproportionately towards individuals of ethnic minorities for indistinct expenses… and as a device of political repression,” Amnesty charged.
