A report on the statistics of Executions in the first year of Ebrahim Raisi’s presidency (August 3, 2021-August 2, 2022)
9-August-2022
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Breathing in Confinement: Ebrahim Raisi, a member of the “Death Committee” and one of the perpetrators of the killing of thousands of political prisoners in the summer of 1988, was appointed as the president of Iran last year on August 3, 2021His presidency provoked widespread protests from human rights entities worldwide. Before Raisi’s presidency, another human rights violator named Gholam Hossein Ejei was appointed as the head of Iran’s judiciary. These appointments added to the concerns regarding increasing executions and other forms violations of human rights in Iran.
During the past one year, arrest warrants, executions and flogging sentences have been used to intimidate the Iranian people.
Harassment of women, by the so-called “guiding patrols” under the pretext of fighting for “hijab” has significantly increased and many women have been arrested and beaten on the streets for not wearing hijab.
The main criteria of human rights violations in Iran, however, has been the execution of death penalties since the founding of the Islamic Republic.
Concurrently with the widespread protests, the government has increased the number of executions. In the last month, along with the nationwide protests held by various groups of people, executions as a tool to intimidate the society also increased.
At least 516 prisoners were executed during the first year of Ebrahim Raisi’s presidency in various prisons in Iran. Among them, 187 people were hanged on drug related charges and 296 prisoners were hanged for murder. At least 18 women and 4 children were executed during the past one year. Out of 516 executed prisoners, only 39 were announced by the state news agencies.
During Raisi’s term, the gallows returned to the streets after two years and a young prisoner named Iman Sabzikar from Junaqan, born in 1994, was executed in public in Shiraz for murdering a policeman.
The criminal act of executing children continued in Raisi’s presidency, and the authorities of the Islamic Republic did not pay any attention to the calls from the UN Human Rights Committee and UN reporters.