Mass execution in public is common after coming to power of the Islamic Republic of Iran
United Nation Special Rapporteur pointed out the dramatic rise in the number of executions in the past few weeks urged Iran to stop of this punishment. According to statistics, the number of executions has risen sharply in 2013.
On Wednesday 22 Jan, UN Human Rights Rapporteur on Iran Ahmed Shaheed announced that the number of people executed in Iran has skyrocketed in recent weeks. Accordingly, in the first weeks of this year (2014) at least 40 people have been hanged in Iran that only 33 of them have been implemented in the last week.
The UN Special Rapporteur has expressed concern that issued death sentence in Iran for non heavy crimes. There are also a number of political activists and ethnic minorities among those executed.
The latest recent report of the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights is published less than a week away from a recent report by Amnesty International. In London Amnesty International had published on Friday 17 Jan, similar figures of the number of executions in Iran in recent weeks.
In recent days, the Foreign Office of Great Britain announced despite warming ties between Iran and the West, has not improved the human rights situation in this country.
Observers and human rights organizations say at least 625 death sentences have been carried out in Iran in 2013; at least 28 of those executed were women. So the number of executions has doubled compared to the previous year in the same time.
According to Amnesty International, in 2012 at least 314 executions took place in Iran. Based on the statistics, Iran after China was second in the list of countries that have implemented most of the death penalty in 2012.
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