World Day Against the Death Penalty: 280 executions over the last one year in Iran
15-October-2019
Category: executions، Prisoners، Women
Breathing in Confinement _ On the occasion of World Day Against the Death Penalty, the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran annually reports the number of executions carried out in Iran. All of the figures are gathered by the League’s Statistics Center and other trusted human rights activists and institutions.
According to international statistics, in proportion to its population, Iran has the highest number of executions in the world. Putting pressure on the Iranian authorities to urge them to abolish the inhumane punishment of the death penalty must become the priority for the world community and international institutions. In this regard, human rights activists in Iran are trying to publish more accurate statistics on the number of executions carried out throughout the country. The efforts of the Islamic Republic authorities are to keep the executions secret. Therefore, what is reported in the state media, is only a small part of the executions which on a daily basis are carried out in Iran. Human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, have repeatedly warned the Islamic Republic against secret executions and have called them to stop this inhumane punishment.
According to the Statistics Center of the Prisoners’ Rights League, at least 280 prisoners have been executed in Iran over the last year (October 2018- October 2019). Out of them, only 75 have been announced by the official sources. Two hundred and one, however, have been reported by the reliable and approved sources of the human rights activists and the Prisoners’ Rights League.
Over the last six months, since Ibrahim Raisi (a member of the death committee in the mass executions of the political prisoners in summer 1988), has been appointed as the chief justice, the numbers of mass executions and secret hanging have risen. Concurrently the authorities’ efforts to hide the executions have also intensified.
While during the same period in the last year (October 2017 – October 2018), 257 executions have been documented. These figures represent an increase in the implementation of death penalties by the Islamic Republic authorities.
Download the report from here: World Day Against the Death Penalty2