Based on the registered statistics at the Center for Statistics and Documentation of Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran HRM), From the beginning of the month until mid-August 2024, the Iranian judiciary has carried out the death sentences of 70 prisoners in Iranian prisons over a fifteen-day period. On average, nearly 5 prisoners in Iran are being executed each day. While the previous record stood at 4 daily executions in Iran. Compared to the month of July, during which 53 individuals were executed, the number of executions has seen an increase of nearly 180% up to mid-August. An unprecedented record was set this month with the mass execution of 29 prisoners in a single day on August 7, 2024. The escalating trend of executions in Iran during the month of August is highly alarming.
Among those executed until mid-August, one political prisoner stands out, while the rest of the prisoners executed had non-political offenses. Over 90 percent of the executions during the fifteen days of August have not been reported by any state media or institutions affiliated with the Iranian judiciary, and they have been carried out in silence. The highest number of executions took place in Ghezelhesar Prison, with the remainder occurring in prisons in Zahedan, Khorramabad, Mashhad, Tabriz, Bushehr, Isfahan, Kermanshah, Karaj, Bandar Abbas, Shiraz, Sabzevar, Arak, Kerman, Qazvin, Sanandaj, Rafsanjan, Bam, and Gorgan.
Execution of a political prisoner: Early this morning, Tuesday, August 6, 2024, the execution sentence of Reza Rasaei, a Kurdish political prisoner and one of the detainees of the nationwide protests in 2022, was carried out in Dieselabad Prison in Kermanshah.
Mass execution of prisoners: On the early morning of Wednesday, August 7, 2024, the death sentences of 26 male prisoners in Ghezelhesar Prison in Karaj and 3 other male prisoners in Central Karaj Prison (Nedamatgah) were collectively carried out. Until the publication of this news, none of the state media or prison officials have announced these executions, and these executions have been carried out in silence without any news coverage.
Call on International Human Rights Authorities
Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran HRM) calls for an investigation against extra-judicial executions in Iran from Mrs. Mai Sato, the UN Special Rapporteur on Iran Affairs. It also urges the United Nations, the European Union, and member countries not to remain silent in the face of these executions, to condemn this state-sponsored massacre, and to demand immediate and practical action to halt this bloodshed. Silence in the face of this regime’s crime is a violation of the most fundamental human rights and democratic standards.
