Iran ‘executing one person every six hours’
Iran has been executing people at a rate of one person every six hours over the past ten days, according to rights monitors.
Some 42 people, just over half of which were of the Baluch ethnic minority, were executed by Iranian authorities in the 10 days covered by a report from Iran Human Rights (IHR).
The news of the execution spree came as Iranian authorities announced that they had killed Swedish-Iranian dual national Habib Farajollah Chaab on Saturday.
The Swedish foreign ministry condemned Chaab’s execution. He was alleged to have been behind an attack that killed dozens of people at a military parade in the southern province of Khuzistan in 2018, state media said.
The executions reported by IHR were mostly for alleged drug offences. While the widespread street anti-government street protests have died down across most of Iran they have continued every Friday in Sistan-Baluchistan, which is home to the Baluch minority.
At least 194 people have been executed in Iran so far this year, according to the group’s count. The number is a baseline minimum for Iran’s secretive death row. Only two of the 42 executions that they reported on Friday had been officially announced by authorities.
