Les Etats européens continuent de financer les exécutions par pendaison pour délit de drogue en Iran

Ces exécutions sont financées à travers des programmes de lutte contre la drogue de l’ONUDC, avec des fonds européens, en particulier de la France et de l'Allemagne. Pour en savoir plus, en anglais, veuillez lire les informations ci-dessous.

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New analysis released today by NGO Iran Human Rights shows that over two thirds of the 570 people so far executed in Iran this year were sentenced to death on drugs charges.

The executions can be linked to funding for counter-narcotics programmes provided via the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and funded by European states including France and Germany.

International human rights NGO Reprieve’s research shows that France has provided more than EUR 1 million to Iran’s Anti Narcotics Police (ANP) in recent years; while Germany contributed to a EUR 5 million UNODC project which provided the ANP with training and equipment.

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