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IRAN: 331 PEOPLE EXECUTED FOR DRUGS OFFENCES IN 2013 WITH UN AND EUROPEAN SUPPORT

March 12, 2014: Iran executed 331 people for drug-related charges in 2013, a new report published today by the non-profit organisation Iran Human Rights reveals.
The findings will put further pressure on the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and a number of European countries which continue to fund counter-narcotics policing operations in countries such as Iran which impose the death penalty for drugs offences.
UNODC, which receives significant funding from the UK, France and EU (among others) runs programmes in Iran and Pakistan which help the countries’ anti-narcotics forces carry out arrests and prosecutions – inevitably contributing to large numbers of death sentences, as no conditions are imposed on the aid to prevent this outcome.
Executions for drugs offences make up almost half the total number of executions identified by IHR for 2013: 331 out of 687. IHR notes that “Possession and trafficking of narcotic drugs remain the charges the most commonly used against those executed in Iran in 2013.”
Pakistan’s imposition of the death penalty for drugs offences makes a major contribution to its death row population of around 8000 – thought to be the largest in the world.  The UK continues to fund Pakistan’s Anti Narcotics Force via UNODC projects, despite the organisation highlighting the four death penalties it secured in 2013 as among its key “achievements.”
Khadija Shah, a young mother from Birmingham, is one of a number of British citizens potentially facing the death penalty on Pakistan on drugs charges – a situation towards which the UK taxpayer contributes through aid provided to the ANF.
Commenting, Maya Foa, Director of legal charity Reprieve’s death penalty team, said: “It is scandalous that the UNODC continues to – in effect – fund the death penalty around the world. The huge numbers of people executed on drugs charges in Iran last year must act as a wake-up call for the UNODC. Either it needs to put in place measures which prevent its support contributing to the death penalty, or it needs to stop funding anti-narcotics projects in those countries which impose it.  It is also vital that Britain - which is the biggest donor to anti-narcotics in the region - acts to ensure that public money is not being used to further swell Pakistan’s huge death row population.” (Sources: Reprieve, 12/03/2014)

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TEXAS (USA): RAY JASPER EXECUTED
OKLAHOMA (USA): EXECUTIONS POSTPONED SO STATE CAN PROCURE LETHAL DRUGS
PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
IRAN: SAKINEH FREED AFTER 9 YEARS ON DEATH ROW
GHANA: DRAFT CONSTITUTION BILL PROPOSES TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
IRAN: INMATE HANGED IN SEMNAN
SRI LANKA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER A’PURA MURDER
VIETNAM: BANKER SENTENCED TO DEATH IN GRAND SCAM
MADIVES: PRESIDENT YAMEEN, GOVERMENT WILL ENFORCE DEATH PENALTY
IRAQ: SEVEN PEOPLE EXECUTED
IRAN: STEP BY STEP TO STOP DEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES 3 TO DEATH IN EKITI FOR ROBBERY, MURDER, RAPE
SUDAN: REBEL CHIEFS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN ABSENTIA
SRI LANKA: LAWYER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR COLD-BLOODED MURDER OF WIFE
INDIA: SUPREME COURT REJECTS GOVERNMENT’S PLEA ON VERDICT ON COMMUTATION OF DEATH PENALTY
YEMEN: 16 PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
IRAN: UNITED NATIONS, ‘AT LEAST 176 PEOPLE HANGED IN 2014’
INDIA: COURT AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE TO THREE DACOITS
SRI LANKA: NEW HANGMAN GETS DISTRESSED AFTER SEEING GALLOWS AND QUIT
SOMALIA: MILITARY COURT EXECUTES THREE SOLDIERS
LOUISIANA (USA): DEATH ROW INMATE GLENN FORD RELEASED 30 YEARS AFTER WRONGFUL CONVICTION
IRAN: U.N. ANTI-DRUGS CHIEF PRAISES IRAN FIGHT DESPITE EXECUTIONS
IRAN: AN AFGHANI PRISONER EXECUTED IN RAJAI SHAHR PRISON
IRAN: BAN KI-MOON, ‘NO SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT UNDER PRESIDENT ROUHANI’
IRAN: MAN HANGED IN MASHHAD
JAPAN: MAN GETS DEATH FOR 2011 ROBBERY-MURDERS IN OSAKA
EGYPT: 14 SENTENCED TO HANG OVER REVENGE KILLING
KENYA: EX-POLICEMAN IN NAROK ROBBERY CASE SENTENCED TO DEATH
UAE: PAKISTANI MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

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