Human rights: Iran uses death penalty to intimidate protesters

International human rights organizations have suspected that Iran is using the death penalty to intimidate the protesting population, Report informs via Express.

On December 5, an Iranian court sentenced five protesters to capital punishment over the death of vice police officer Ruhollah Adamian in Karaj. A total of 11 people were sentenced to death.

"These people were sentenced to death without due process or a fair trial behind closed doors of the Revolutionary Court, their sentences had no legal force. These executions are carried out in order to create fear in the public and divert public attention from the failures of the intelligence of the Islamic Republic," Mahmoud Amiri-Moghaddam, head of the Iranian branch of Human Rights, said.

The British organization Amnesty International also provided data, according to which at least 28 people arrested for participating in demonstrations risk being executed.

More than 500 people were executed in the country in 2022, according to human rights organizations. This is 200 more than the number of those executed a year earlier.