IRAN, — According to the figures published by Amnesty International, Iran had carried out 360 overt and 247 covert execution in 2011.
In this regard the European Union raised its concern on 30 May criticizing the Iranian authority for such high figures of executions, demanding it to put an end to this trend.
“According to the latest figures published by several sources in the past five months of this year the execution has increased in Iran. Iran has become a country heading the list of those countries carrying out execution,” Reuters quoted Catherin Ashton EU foreign minister.
Another diplomat told the same source that;”The Iranian government has taken advantage of the fact that the whole world is contemplating its nuclear issue, and keeps executing the prisoners.”
Amid the waves of execution, eight people were executed yesterday in Urmiye prison whose names are as follow: Nihad Nuredini, Seyad Ehmedpur, Sefere Pakizeru, Haci Pejuhesh, Ellawerdi Ehhmedpur, Ebdul Hemid Muradi, Xosrew Derweshi, and Seyid Ednan Gilani.
According to official figures 293 people in Iran have been executed from the beginning of 2012.
The stated charges for the executions are either “Moharebe” (enmity with God), or “having social or ethnical problems”, or alleged drug-trafficking.
The reliable sources have observed that most of people executed on the charge of drug-trafficking have been political prisoners or affiliated with political groups or engaged in some sorts in political action.
The Iranian government executes its political opponents under the clock of drug-traffickers to justify the medieval act of execution, these sources have argued.