Iran Executes Two More People on Drug Charges

The authorities of the Islamic Republic executed two more prisoners amid a surge in the death penalty.

On Saturday, two death-row prisoners convicted of drug-related charges were executed in Parsilon Prison of western Khorramabad. 

One of them has been identified as Naser Garavand. Both prisoners had been arrested on drug charges and subsequently sentenced to death by the judiciary.

According to a report by Amnesty International, Iran has reached its highest level of death sentence execution 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 underlines an 89 percent increase in the death penalty compared to 2022 when 255 people were executed for drug-related offenses.

The latest numbers also show a 264 percent increase compared to 2021, when 132 individuals faced execution for similar charges.