{"id":238472,"date":"2021-04-23T07:46:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=238472"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:58:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:58:02","slug":"iran-regime-accelerates-trend-of-capital-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/iran-regime-accelerates-trend-of-capital-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Regime Accelerates Trend of Capital Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Wednesday, Amnesty International published a report on the global state of capital punishment and concluded that \u201cthe overall picture in 2020 was positive.\u201d But as the report also made clear, this stands in stark contrast to the picture gleaned from several countries that continued to implement death sentences with impunity, even during the pandemic. Of the 18 countries that are known to have done so, Iran stands out in a way that lives up to its longstanding reputation as the country with the highest rate of executions per capita.<\/p>\n

Only China, with its population of over a billion people, is believed to be responsible for larger numbers of annual executions. But China provides no official records of capital punishment, and independent sources tend to be incomplete and hard to come by. Of those countries for which data is available, none come close to Iran\u2019s numbers.<\/p>\n

In fact, the Amnesty International<\/a> report stated that the Iranian regime \u201cincreasingly used the death penalty as a weapon of political repression against dissidents, protesters, and members of ethnic minority groups, in violation of international law.\u201d Such killings are a perennial feature of the Iranian regime, but the escalating trend has undoubtedly been motivated by a corresponding increase in political activism that aims for a fundamental change of the ruling system.<\/p>\n

Starting in the final days of 2017 and continuing through much of January 2018, residents of more than 100 Iranian cities and towns took part in an anti-government uprising that featured chants of \u201cdeath to the dictator\u201d and explicit denunciations of both the \u201chardline\u201d and \u201creformist\u201d factions that share power within the theocratic regime. Since that time, several reports have emerged of participants in the uprising being sentenced to death and potentially adding to the uprising\u2019s death toll, which initially comprised roughly 60 individuals who were either shot dead during the protests or killed under torture immediately thereafter.<\/p>\n

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Iran: One year after the uprising in November 2019<\/div><\/div>
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