Addicted to Death: Executions for Drug Offences in Iran

Many of those convicted have been killed in secret mass executions inside prisons, sometimes with their family and lawyer having little or no warning. Most, if not all, were condemned to death after grossly unfair trials, including being denied access to a lawyer and having no right to appeal. Among them were three women – all mothers solely responsible for dependent children - arrested in January 2009 on suspicion of drug trafficking, interrogated without a lawyer, tried before a Revolutionary Court in Hamedan, and sentenced to death without a right of appeal.