Theocratic Iran executed over 300 death row inmates this year, mostly Mayand the country records record in the hangings which he had to break since 2015, as announced today by an organization in favor of human rights.

From January 1, 2023 they have 307 people were executeda number up 75% from the first five months of 2022.

For the month of May alone, 142 people were executed, four per day in the Islamic Republic, according to the non-governmental organization Iran Human Rights (IHR), based in Norway.

Indicatively, a few days ago a man who had been found guilty of “corruption on earth”, the most serious crime provided by sharia, was publicly executed in Marrakech.

The man was arrested around five years ago and convicted of offenses linked to his “relationships with women”. It is not clear, however, exactly what his crime was.

Iran is the country that carries out the world’s highest number of executions every year after China, according to human rights groups including Amnesty International, which denounce opaque procedures and confessions often extracted by force, mostly through torture.

Seven men they were hanged in relation to the anti-regime demonstrations that started last September. Many NGOs say hangings have increased in connection with drug or murder cases, with ethnic minorities disproportionately targeted.

“The Islamic Republic’s intensification of arbitrary executions aims to spread fear in society in order to prevent protests and prolong its rule,” said Mahmoud Amiri-Moghaddam, director of the IHR.

“If the international community does not react more strongly to today’s wave of executions, hundreds more people will be victims of their killing machine in the coming months.”

According to the report, 59% of those hanged this year, or 180 people, were executed for drug-related reasons. More than 20% of those executed in May, or 30 people, belonged to the predominantly Sunni Baloch minority in the southeastern part of the country.