Rights groups: Iran increasing executions
UPI.com / UPI.Com
08-Jul-2011

TEHRAN, July 8 (UPI) -- Iran has stepped up its use of capital punishment, executing an average of two people a day in the first half of this year, human rights organizations said.

The organizations said they base their claims on official figures released by Iran and information from other sources about executions taking place in secret, The Guardian reported Thursday.

Amnesty International said Iran acknowledged executing 190 people from the beginning of 2011 to the end of June but the rights organization said it knows of at least 130 other executions.

Iran Human Rights, an independent non-government group based in Norway, told The Guardian it recorded 390 executions since January, including two Thursday.

GALLERY (Graphic): Public Execution in Iran

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