{"id":109998,"date":"2023-04-14T07:17:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T12:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=109998"},"modified":"2023-04-14T07:17:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T12:17:20","slug":"rights-groups-say-executions-in-iran-reach-highest-level-since-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2023\/04\/14\/rights-groups-say-executions-in-iran-reach-highest-level-since-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights Groups Say Executions in Iran Reach Highest Level Since 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109999 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Mohammad-Mehdi-Karami-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Mohammad-Mehdi-Karami-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Mohammad-Mehdi-Karami-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Mohammad-Mehdi-Karami.jpg 600w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Mohammad-Mehdi-Karami-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Mohammad-Mehdi-Karami-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Mohammad-Mehdi-Karami-48x32.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>VOA \u2014 Two human rights groups said in a report issued Thursday that Iran executed at least 582 prisoners last year, the country\u2019s highest level since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Norway-based Iran Human Rights and Paris-based Together Against the Death Penalty said the number of executions had risen 75% compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>The groups said in their report that Iran uses the death penalty as a way to intimidate and oppress people in order to maintain power.<\/p>\n<p>The report said about half of the executions were for murder charges.<\/p>\n<div data-owner-ct=\"Article\" data-inline=\"False\">\n<div class=\"media-block also-read\"><a class=\"img-wrap img-wrap--size-3 also-read__img\" title=\"US Lawmakers Urge EU to Declare Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards a Terrorist Group\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/us-lawmakers-urge-eu-to-declare-iran-s-revolutionary-guards-a-terrorist-group\/7045145.html\"><span class=\"thumb thumb16_9\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" enhanced\" src=\"https:\/\/gdb.voanews.com\/80470000-c0a8-0242-785c-08dab2faa9d8_cx0_cy1_cw0_w256_r1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE - In this photo provided by the Revolutionary Guard's Ground Force Oct. 17, 2022, troops stand while attending a manoeuver in northwestern Iran.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/gdb.voanews.com\/80470000-c0a8-0242-785c-08dab2faa9d8_cx0_cy1_cw0_w100_r1.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-block__content also-read__body also-read__body--h\"><a title=\"US Lawmakers Urge EU to Declare Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards a Terrorist Group\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/us-lawmakers-urge-eu-to-declare-iran-s-revolutionary-guards-a-terrorist-group\/7045145.html\"><span class=\"also-read__text--label\">SEE ALSO:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"media-block__title media-block__title--size-3 also-read__text p-0\">US Lawmakers Urge EU to Declare Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards a Terrorist Group<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Citing the protests that began in September following the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, the groups said four protesters have been executed and that 100 others \u201cremain at risk of death penalty charges, sentences and execution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA \u2014 Two human rights groups said in a report issued Thursday that Iran executed at least 582 prisoners last year, the country\u2019s highest level since 2015. Norway-based Iran Human Rights and Paris-based Together Against the Death Penalty said the number of executions had risen 75% compared to the previous year. The groups said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110001,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109998\/revisions\/110001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}