Executions in Iran, a tool for mullahs to stay in power

Tag: Executions in Iran

Since grabbing power in 1979, mullahs’ regime resorted to crackdown and executions in Iran in a desperate attempt to create a climate of fear to keep a lid on dissent and silence thousands of political dissidents and ordinary Iranians who dared challenge its rule.
Activists say executions in Iran are aimed at intimidating protesters and the regime knows that the moment it stops its systematic use of execution, torture and suppression, it will collapse at the hands Iranian people.
In the summer of 1988, the clerical regime ruling in Iran secretly executed several thousands of political prisoners.
Thirty-two years after this crime against humanity, many families of the victims are still unaware about the fate and burial place of their loved ones. The 1988 massacre of political prisoners, mostly members, supporters and sympathizers of the Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) was an unprecedented crime against humanity that that continues to this day.
The Iranian regime has the highest rate of executions per capita in the world. It also open-handedly uses the death penalty as a form of punishment. In many cases, the religious and ethnic minorities, political dissidents, and women are targets of the death penalty in a discriminatory manner.

EXECUTIONS

Iran hangs seven including woman in Rajai Shahr Prison

by Iran HRM

February 17, 2021

Iranian authorities executed seven prisoners today, bringing the total number of fatal those executed in February to at least 13. ...

EXECUTIONS

Iran hangs 2 prisoners in recent increase in executions of Baloch minority prisoners

by Iran HRM

February 15, 2021

Two other prisoners were executed Saturday in eastern Iran following the recent increase in executions of Baloch minority prisoners. Iranian ...

NGO Reports

Alarm raised over ‘escalation’ in executions of Iran’s minority inmates

by Iran HRM

February 4, 2021

Amnesty International has raised alarm over an excalation in executions of Iran's minority inmates and urged the international community to ...

Articles

Iran hangs 27 people in January amid incessant use of death penalty

by Iran HRM

February 2, 2021

At least 27 prisoners were executed in Iran in January 2021. The executed include four political prisoners, six drug offenders, ...

EXECUTIONS

Iran executes ethnic Baluchi who was tortured into confessing

by Iran HRM

January 30, 2021

Iranian authorities on Saturday hanged Javid Dehghan, a member of Iran’s Baluchi ethnic minority, despite a plea by the United ...

33 executions carried out in Iran in the span of one month

by Iran HRM

January 22, 2021

33 executions carried out in Iran in the span of one month The clerical regime’s human rights dossier must be ...

Baluch prisoner Hassan Dehvari undergoes savage tortures before execution

by Iran HRM

January 7, 2021

In a voice recording emerged from inside Iran a Baluch political prisoner who was recently executed said that he was ...

EXECUTIONS

Baluch prisoners tortured and executed in southwest Iran prison

by Iran HRM

January 3, 2021

Three Baluch prisoners were executed today in Zahedan Prison, in the southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan province, the state-run media reported. The three ...