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Iran: the country is turning its prisons into 'killing fields'

Iran has turned its prisons into sites of mass killing with at least 853 people executed in the Islamic Republic in 2023, over half of them on drug-related charges, Amnesty International said on Thursday.

Source: L'Orient Today (04/04/2024)