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Since 2007, HRI has been at the forefront of advocating for the abolition of the death penalty for drug-related offences worldwide, including via the Death Penalty for drug offences: Global Overview series. [...] The number of drug related executions in the country continues increasing (+92% between 2021 and 2022; +79% between 2022 and 2023), also because the regime uses executions to stifle protests in times of upheaval in the country. [...] According to figures by the Abdorrahman Boroumand Centre for Human Rights in Iran, in 2023 drug offences were responsible for the majority of executions in the country. [...] In November 2022, Sri Lanka expanded the applicability of the death penalty by adding methamphetamine as a substance the possession, import/export, or trafficking over five grams of which can be punished with death.11 At least six people were sentenced to death for drug offences in 2023 in the country. [...] This is even though only an extreme minority of states actively executed people for drugs; in clear violation of international standards; as reiterated, among others, by the September 2023 OHCHR report on “Human rights challenges in addressing and countering all aspects of the world drug problem”;12 and the 2023 Resolution by the Human Rights Council on the “Question of the death penalty”.13 These.