Since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, 'death penalty used as political tool to keep regime in power'

Iran hanged 75 percent more people in 2022 that the previous years, two rights groups said on Thursday, denouncing an "execution machine" aimed at spreading fear as protests shook the country. The figure of at least 582 executions was the highest since 2015 in Iran and well above the figure of 333 in 2021, the report by Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and Paris-based Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM) said. For more, FRANCE 24's Tom Burges Watson is joined by Raphaël Chenuil-Hazan, ECPM's Executive Director and President of the French Platform for Human Rights (PDH).