The Reuters news agency reports that on January 3 in Iran, seven people were executed by a court decision and sentenced to capital punishment for drug trafficking..
According to the statement of the prosecutor Mojtab Maleki, all those sentenced were hanged in one of the prisons located in the western province of the country — Kermanshah.
Maleki also added that during their arrests and searches in their homes, all these people were found to have from five to one hundred kilograms of various substances that are banned for distribution in Iran — heroin and other synthetic drugs..
Recall that, based on local laws, each person who is found by the authorities to have more than thirty grams of drugs will be hanged. This legal norm is actively used in Iran today. So on January 1, the country’s state television informed fellow citizens about the execution of the death sentence for eight more drug dealers..
In Iran, the list of crimes punishable by death is not limited to drug trafficking. In this country, you can get on the scaffold for treason, rape, murder, armed robbery, drug smuggling, as well as adultery.
In conclusion, we note that in Iran, such harsh criminal legislation gained force after the victory in the country of the Islamic revolution, which took place in 1979..
