Iran regime justice minister: Less executions this year!!!! 2/27/2018 10:08:19 PM   facebook Google+ ► Print Protestors demonstrate against a speech by Avaei, at the 37th session of the Human Rights Council GENEVA (Reuters) February 27, 2018  - Iran’s justice minister said on Tuesday a recent reform of its drug laws should lead to fewer executions after the U.N. Secretary General said he remained alarmed about their high number - nearly 500 last year. As Ali Reza Avai addressed the  United Nations  Human Rights Council, protesters rallied outside against the senior official who is on  European Union and Swiss sanctions lists over alleged involvement in violations including arbitrary arrests and a rise in executions while he was president of the Tehran judiciary. Avai was a senior judiciary official during the 1980s and the Mujahedin-e Khalq, an Iranian opposition group, accuses him of playing a role in the Islamic Republic’s e...