{"id":255602,"date":"2022-02-12T04:07:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T09:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=255602"},"modified":"2023-02-03T18:29:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T17:29:52","slug":"iran-executions-stepped-up-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/iran-executions-stepped-up-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Executions Stepped Up. Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many countries have abolished the death penalty. Yet, Iran, under the ruling theocracy, where Cyrus the Great wrote the first-ever declaration of human rights, commonly known as the Cyrus Cylinder, ranks first in per capita executions.<\/p>\n

According to the independent sources, since Ebrahim Raisi took office<\/a>, at least 271 have been hanged, 54 in 2022 alone. \u00a0In August, the Iranian regime\u2019s self-proclaimed \u201cmoderate\u201d president, Hassan Rouhani, ended his eight-year tenure with over 5,000 execution hanging over the responsibility of \u201cimplementing God\u2019s order,\u201d a term he used to justify hangings, to Ebrahim Raisi. The regime\u2019s Supreme Leader installed Raisi, an illiterate judiciary official who rose through the regime\u2019s ranks due to his ruthlessness, to serve as the boogeyman to intimidate Iran\u2019s increasingly restive and defiant society.<\/p>\n

Having served as a member of Tehran\u2019s \u201cDeath Commission\u201d during the 1988 genocide which saw the execution of tens of thousands of political prisoners, Raisi symbolizes the regime\u2019s violent essence. He ascended to power after decades of crimes against humanity, such as his role in the torture of thousands of political prisoners when he was a prosecutor in Hamedan and Karaj prisons and the arbitrary arrest and torture of thousands of protesters during the November 2019 uprising.<\/p>\n

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Human rights in Iran in 2021, an Overview<\/div><\/div>
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