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☠️ Death penalty · · Iran

Iran raises the threshold for drug executions

Parliament amended the Anti-Narcotics Law so that only trafficking of more than 50 kg of cannabis or opium can bring a death sentence, up from 5 kg. Many pending cases became life sentences.

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Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Iran here.