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September 8, 2015       Share:    

Source: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/07/irans-staggering-execution-spree/

Iran's Staggering Execution Spree: Nearly 700 Put to Death in Six Months

(Amnesty International) Iranian authorities are believed to have executed 694 people between Jan. 1 and July 15, 2015, Amnesty International reported on July 23, a rate of more than three people per day. "The state [is] carrying out premeditated, judicially-sanctioned killings on a mass scale," said Said Boumedouha, Deputy Director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Program.

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