Three prisoners convicted on separate murder and drug-related charges were executed on Tuesday at the Bandar Abbas Prison.
The executed prisoners have been identified as Aminollah Naruei, 42, Hamzeh Garavand, 28, and Azad Abdollahi, 45.
Aminollah Narui was arrested in 2021 and Hamzeh Garavand in 2022, both on drug-related charges. They were jailed at Bandar Abbas and subsequently sentenced to death by the judiciary.
Azad Abdollahi, along with another prisoner identified as Roozbeh, was arrested approximately 19 years ago on a joint murder charge and sentenced to death.
According to a report by Amnesty International, Iran has reached its highest level of death sentence executions in the last eight years, with the judiciary of the Islamic Republic executing 853 people in 2023 alone.
The report indicates that 481 executions, more than half of the total, were related to drug crimes. This marks an 89 percent rise in death penalties for drug-related offenses compared to 2022, when 255 people were executed.
The latest numbers also show a staggering 264 percent spike compared to 2021, when 132 individuals faced execution on similar charges.
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