Iran is weaponizing the death penalty to frighten the public and crush dissent, and its execution of protesters without due process amounts to state-sanctioned killing, the UN said on Tuesday.
A view of the courtroom during the hearing before Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini and Mohammad-Mehdi Karami are executed by hanging for allegedly killing a member of the security forces during nationwide protests that followed the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, in Tehran, Iran December, 2022 in this still image obtained from a video by WANA / Handout via REUTERSamounts to state-sanctioned killing, the UN said on Tuesday.
"Criminal proceedings and the death penalty are being weaponized by the Iranian government to punish individuals participating in protests and to strike fear into the population so as to stamp out dissent, in violation of international human rights law," UN rights chief Volker Turk's office said. "The weaponization of criminal procedures to punish people for exercising their basic rights—such as those participating in or organizing demonstrations—amounts to state-sanctioned killing," Turk said.
The UN Human Rights Office said it had received information that two further executions are imminent—that of 19-year-old Mohammad Boroughani, and Mohammad Ghobadiou, 22.
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