Iran: Prisons turned into killing fields as drug-related executions almost triple this year

By Amnesty International

Iranian authorities have executed at least 173 people convicted of drug-related offences this year after systematically unfair trials, nearly three times more than this time last year, Amnesty International said today. Executions for drug-related offences make up two thirds of all the executions carried out in Iran in the first five months of 2023 and […] The post Iran: Prisons turned into killing fields as drug-related executions almost triple this year appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>

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