{"id":237158,"date":"2021-04-02T08:37:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T13:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=237158"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:00:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:00:26","slug":"barring-major-intervention-irans-human-rights-record-may-grow-still-worse-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/barring-major-intervention-irans-human-rights-record-may-grow-still-worse-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Barring Major Intervention, Iran\u2019s Human Rights Record May Grow Still Worse this Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Iran-execution-violation-of-the-Human-Rights-23012021\"<\/p>\n

Iran under the rule of mullahs has consistently maintained its status as the country with the world\u2019s single highest rate of executions per capita. No other country apart from China, with its population of over a billion, exceeds Iran\u2019s raw number of judicially-sanctioned killings each year. In 2020, Iran also took on the distinction of being one of the only countries to maintain its prior pace of executions in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
\nAccording to one recent report by the Iran Human Rights Monitor, the total number of executions carried out in Iran last year was at least 267. This is very much in line with the figures recorded for 2018 and 2019, which were 273 and 280, respectively. In any event, as the Iran HRM<\/a> report points out, the totals for any given year are only estimates, as the Iranian judiciary only formally announces a portion of the death sentences it implements.
\nIn 2020, that portion was only about a third of the total, or 91. The others are only known to the world outside of Iran\u2019s notorious prison as a result of efforts by human rights activists and the populations of those facilities, especially their political wards. Still other executions may go unreported or least remain unconfirmed by more than one independent source. Thus, the true number is likely higher than what is reported internationally in any given year, even if one avoids factoring in incidents that amount to informal executions through targeted abuse and denial of access to medical care.<\/p>\n

Naturally, this latter issue became even more important over the past year, with prisons in Iran and various other countries becoming well-recognized hotbeds for the spread of Covid-19. In Iran\u2019s case, the government made a show of announcing that it would be releasing tens of thousands of non-violent offenders, but it only released a few and the political prisoners had been categorically excluded from the furlough arrangements.<\/p>\n

This came as little surprise to persons familiar with the Iranian prison system or the clerical regime\u2019s penchant for human rights abuses. In reports published over the past several weeks, the National Council of Resistance of Iran has called attention to the plight of various individual detainees like Saeid Sangar, who has not been granted a single day\u2019s furlough in more than 20 years, and Fatemeh Mosanna, who has been transferred to hospital during particularly severe health crises but has been returned to her cell in each case before she was able to receive a full course of treatment.<\/p>\n

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