Rights Group: Iran Executed 142 People in May

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Iran has executed 7,292 people since 2010, including 68 minors and 193 women, according to IHRNGO.
45% :Last year, with 576 executions, Iran stood second only to China, where 883 executions were implemented, Amnesty International reported.
44% : Iran carried out 142 executions in May, marking the highest number of people put to death in one month in the country since 2015, a rights group said Thursday.
44% :Between January and May, Iran carried out 307 executions, a number significantly higher than the 220 executions reported in the same period last year.
44% : Minorities targetedOf those executed in Iran last month, 30 were from the Baluch ethnic and religious minority group.
43% : Iran has about 10 million Kurds, mostly based in its northwestern Kurdistan province.
42% : For decades, Iran's religious and ethnic minorities have demanded greater rights, equality and political representation in government, but Tehran has mostly responded with executions, prolonged detentions and other forms of state-sponsored violence, human rights groups say.
36% :Iranian authorities reject the criticisms, saying only serious crimes, as enshrined in the country's penal code, warrant the death penalty.
33% : In March, Amnesty International reported the execution of 14 Kurds in Iran.
28% : The executions have prompted calls for more international pressure on Iran to at least decelerate the current pace of capital punishments.
21% : The United Nations states that drug offenses are not among the "most serious crimes" warranting the death penalty under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Iran is a party.

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