Does not meet worldwide requirements
Executions are “primarily” carried out for drug-related crimes. Mr Turk stated this was “inconsistent with worldwide human rights norms and requirements”.
OHCHR stated minorities are overrepresented on Iran’s loss of life row, with sources saying a minimum of 45 folks have been executed up to now 14 days alone, together with 22 members of the Baluch minority.
“The majority had been executed for drug-related offences,” the UN human rights chief added.
“Abominable report”
“If this continues, Iran can be worryingly on the identical path as final yr, when round 580 folks had been reportedly executed,” Turk stated. “This is an abhorrent report, particularly given the rising consensus calling for the common abolition of the loss of life penalty.”
According to OHCHR, just a few nations nonetheless impose and apply the loss of life penalty.
On Saturday, Iran executed Habib Chaab, a Swedish-Iranian from the Arab minority Awazi, the rights workplace added. The man was charged and convicted of “corruption on earth,” against the law punishable by loss of life beneath Iran’s strict interpretation of Islamic regulation.
OHCHR reported Monday that Youssef Mehrdad and Sadrola Fazeli Zareh had been executed on prices together with blasphemy.
Speaking on the Human Rights Council final month, Turk stated the loss of life penalty was “a relic of the previous that have to be abolished within the twenty first century.”