In 2019, 274 death sentences have been carried out in Iran under the rule of the Islamic Republic
6-January-2020
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Breathing in Confinement – According to the Statistics Center of the Prisoners’ Rights in Iran, over the past year, 274 inmates have faced the death penalty in prisons and occasionally in public.
In spite of widespread international protests, the Islamic Republic’s authorities have not taken any action to improve the human rights situation in Iran. Considering its population, Iran has still the highest rank in issuing and implementing death penalties in the world. The use of the death penalty in the Islamic Republic’s judiciary is not a method of deterring crimes from being happened, but a method of intimidating and terrorizing society.
The process of hearing and judging and detaining the prisoners in the Islamic Republic is by no means transparent and most prisoners were denied the right to have a lawyer. In addition, authorities insist on keeping the executions secret, and the execution of prisoners is rarely reported in the official media. Accordingly, statistics provided by human rights organizations are only part of daily secret executions in prisons that have been possible to be known and verified through the human rights activists inside Iran. There is no doubt that the actual number of executions is much higher.
In year 2019, the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, was able to record 274 executions. Out of them, 13 executions were carried out in public in front of people, including the children.
At least 15 women have been executed during the last year. And at least 4 prisoners, under the age of 18, were among those who were executed.
It should be noted that only 73 of these executions have been reported by the official media, and the remaining 201 have been reported by human rights activists in Iran.
The executed prisoners were mainly arrested and sentenced to death on charges of “murder”.
Among the country’s provinces, Alborz province had the highest number of executions.