Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); December 4, 2024: At least
144 people including 4 women, 12 Afghan nationals, a Jewish-Iranian and a man with intellectual disabilities were executed in Iranian prisons. On average, more than four people were executed per day.
In October 2024, the Islamic Republic carried out 166 executions, the highest number of monthly executions recorded by IHRNGO since 2007. The number of executions by Iran authorities has dramatically hiked under the shadow of conflict and the international community’s attention to Middle Eastern crises.
Only 4% of the executions were reported by official sources, the remainder were verified and recorded by IHRNGO.
IHRNGO once again draws Iranian people and the international community’s attention to the use of the death penalty in Iran and emphasises the need to express opposition and pressure the Islamic Republic to stop the executions.
IHRNGO Director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said: “By executing at least 310 people in two months, the Islamic Republic has begun the most extensive wave of executions in Iranian prisons in the last two decades. Those executed are predominantly from the marginalised segments of society and deprived of minimum fair trial rights. Urgent action by the international community is needed to stop the Islamic Republic’s execution machine.”
November 2024 Executions at a Glance:
- At least 144 people were executed in November 2024
- Only 6 or 4% of the recorded executions were reported by official sources
- 4 women were amongst those executed
- 72 were on death row for drug-related offences
- 66 were sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder
- 6 were sentenced to death for rape charges
- 13 Baluch and 9 Kurdish minorities were amongst those executed
- 13 Afghan nationals were executed
- 1 prisoner suffered from mental disabilities
- 1 man was publicly hanged
According to Iran Human Rights data, at least 310 people were executed in October and November (166 and 144 respectively) since Iran-Israel tensions escalated following the killing of Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
Of the 144 recorded executions in November, 72 were for drug-related, 66 for murder and 6 for rape charges.
The number of executions of Afghan nationals has risen since the Taliban took control in Afghanistan. In 2022, 16 Afghan nationals, including a juvenile offender and a woman, were executed. In 2023, this number increased to 25. This year, the trend has accelerated further, with at least 61 Afghan nationals executed in Iran in the first 11 months of 2024, 12 of whom were executed in October alone.
An Iranian-Jewish citizen named Arvin Ghahremani who was on death row for an unpremeditated murder he was accused of committing at 18, was executed in Kermanshah Central Prison.
An informed source previously told IHRNGO: “Arvin’s religion was initially cited as Shia Muslim in the case and the victim’s family agreed to accept diya but changed their mind and insisted on his execution when they discovered that he was Jewish.”
Ezat Seyedi, a man who suffered from “intellectual disabilities” per informed sources, was executed in Zanjan Central Prison.
Source:
iranhr.net, Staff, December 4, 2024
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"One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed,
but by the punishments that the good have inflicted."
— Oscar Wilde
