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"In Iran, the number of death sentences handed down and carried out for both political and non-political reasons rose significantly," as Rebin Rahmani, a Kurdish activist based in Paris told DW.
In 2018, Besharat's mother penned an open letter to Javaid Rehman, the UN's special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, to register her complaint against the Iranian judiciary.
Amnesty International's latest report claims that the authorities in Iran are increasingly using capital punishment as a way to terrorize citizens and cement their own power.
In 2022, after conducting sham trials, Iran executed nine people in connection with the "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests that rocked the country in the wake of the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of police.
"Without international pressure, that number would have been considerably higher," Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of the Norway-based organization Iran Human Rights (IHR), told DW.
In November 2023, for instance, brothers Saeed and Ismail Alizahi were executed in the city of Zahedan on drug charges without either receiving a final visit from their family.