{"id":246569,"date":"2021-09-08T09:45:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T14:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=246569"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:45:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:45:41","slug":"irans-rising-number-of-executions-sign-of-systematic-impunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/irans-rising-number-of-executions-sign-of-systematic-impunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Rising Number of Executions: Sign of Systematic Impunity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week, Iran Human Rights Monitor reported that about the rising trend of executions in Iran. The recent confirmation of Ebrahim Raisi as the regime\u2019s new president seems to have accelerated the trend.\u00a0Raisi is notorious for his involvement at the highest level of the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in the summer of 1988<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The overall execution rates bear out the expectation that Raisi’s ascension to the presidency would coincide with a surge in arrests and harsh legal punishments. Iran Human Rights Monitor recently affirmed that conclusion with its monthly report, referencing not only execution rates but also notable instances of politically motivated legal action, including humiliating parades of accused criminals which stand alongside the regime\u2019s longstanding practice of public execution as a means of intimidating the population.<\/p>\n

IHRM noted that at least 26 individuals were executed in total in July. This implies that the overall trend is still moving upward and will continue to do so.\u00a0The possibility remains that either of these figures might be lower than the actual number of executions carried out by the Iranian judiciary. Tehran has a long history of avoiding official announcements of executions so as to downplay the true prevalence of the practice.<\/p>\n

In a virtual conference<\/a> held in August to discuss the 1988 massacre, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, urged various United Nations entities and international human rights defenders to \u201cvisit the Iranian regime\u2019s prisons and meet with the prisoners there, especially the political prisoners.\u201d This recommendation was, of course, supplemental to the NCRI\u2019s call for a formal commission of inquiry regarding the massacre, but it served to emphasize that the legacy of the 1988 massacre remains alive today in Tehran\u2019s sense of impunity regarding other human rights matters.<\/p>\n

This sentiment was previously expressed by seven UN human rights experts when they wrote a letter to regime authorities in September 2020. The document condemned the failure of relevant international bodies to follow up on information regarding the massacre in 1988, and it noted that this \u201chad a devastating impact on the survivors and their families as well as on the general situation of human rights in Iran.\u201d The letter was published for an international audience in December after Tehran declined to reply, and thus it conveyed the authors\u2019 appeal for international measures leading to the sort of accountability that the regime refuses to pursue among its officials.<\/p>\n

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