{"id":451,"date":"2014-01-17T18:54:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T18:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=451"},"modified":"2014-01-17T18:54:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T18:54:24","slug":"amnesty-iran-has-executed-40-people-so-far-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty: Iran Has Executed 40 People So Far This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iransos.com\/en\/photo\/2011\/a\/ai.jpg\" width=\"65\" height=\"104\" \/>Amnesty International alarmed at reported spike in executions, mostly for alleged drug offenses &#8211; TIME &#8211; By Andrew Katz Jan. 16, 2014 &#8211; Iran has carried out 40 executions since the start of 2014, according to Amnesty International, with at least 33 taking place in the last week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->The human-rights organization released\u00a0a statement Thursday detailing\u00a021 executions acknowledged by Iranian officials, and another 19 that were \u201creported through reliable sources.\u201d Public hangings\u00a0in Iran are typically a show of force: a crane is used to lift the person by a noose tied around their neck in front of a crowd.<br \/>\n\u201cThe spike in the number of executions carried out so far this month in Iran is alarming,\u201d said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty\u2019s deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa. \u201cThe Iranian authorities\u2019 attempts to change their international image are meaningless if at the same time executions continue to increase.\u201d<br \/>\nAlleged drug offenses are thought to be the root cause of most of Iran\u2019s executions, but Amnesty says those types of non-lethal crimes don\u2019t warrant the death penalty. The group called on Iran to end the practice and reform its Revolutionary Court trials, frequently held behind closed doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty International alarmed at reported spike in executions, mostly for alleged drug offenses &#8211; TIME &#8211; By Andrew Katz Jan. 16, 2014 &#8211; Iran has carried out 40 executions since<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[70,53,71],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amnesty-international","tag-executions","tag-iran-executions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}