Iranian authorities executed a death-row inmate convicted of drug-related charges in South Khorasan province.
The executed prisoner has been identified as Naser Rahimi, a 32-year-old man from Zahedan who had been living in Mashhad.
Rahimi, who was married and the father of one child, was arrested in 2021 in the city of Qaen on drug-related charges.
Following his arrest, Rahimi was tried by the Revolutionary Court of Qaen, which handed down a death sentence.
The details of his trial and the specific charges against him have not been made public.
According to a report by Amnesty International, Iran has reached its highest level of death sentence executions in the last eight years, with the judiciary of the Islamic Republic executing 853 people in 2023 alone.
The report indicates that 481 executions, more than half of the total, were related to drug crimes. This marks an 89 percent increase in the death penalty compared to 2022, when 255 people were executed for drug-related offenses.
The latest numbers also show a 264 percent increase compared to 2021, when 132 individuals faced execution for similar charges.
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