Iran has executed more than 500 people so far in 2022, far more than in the whole of last year, a rights group said Monday.
Norway-based group Iran Human Rights told AFP at least 504 people had now been executed in Iran this year and that it was still working to confirm additional cases of people said to have been hanged.
The figure comes as concern grows that the authorities will make extensive use of the death penalty against people involved in the anti-regime protests that have erupted in Iran since September.
IHR’s count includes four people who official media said were put to death on Sunday accused of working with Israel’s intelligence service.
The rights group said they were executed in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj outside Tehran also known as Gohardasht within just seven months of arrest.
