Spike in executions shows Iran’s prisons are ‘killing fields’, says Amnesty International
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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.