“The Smiling Face of the Mullahs”
Tuesday, 26 January 2016 15:46
In view of the visit to Italy by President
Hassan Rouhani, scheduled for the 25th and 26th of January, Hands Off Cain
presented the Report on the Death Penalty in Iran entitled “The Smiling Face of
the Mullahs”.
The Report lists the executions carried out in
Iran in 2015 and in first two weeks of 2016 and provides a comprehensive view
of capital punishment under Hassan Rouhani's Presidency.
The report also represents a “reminder” for
the Italian State's highest authorities to bring the question of the death
penalty and the respect of human rights to the center of every meeting and
understanding with the representatives of the regime in Tehran.
According to the report, in 2015 the regime in
Tehran carried out at least 980 executions, a 22.5% increase compared to 800 in
2014 and a 42.6% increase compared to 687 in 2013.
This is the number of executions among the
highest in the recent history of Iran, which classifies it as the top
“Executioner-Country” in the world in relation to population. At least 370
execution cases (37.7%) were reported by official Iranian sources (websites of
the Iranian Judiciary, national Iranian broadcasting network, and official or
state-run news agencies and newspapers); 610 cases (62.3%) included in the
annual numbers were reported by unofficial sources (other human rights NGOs or
sources inside Iran).
The actual number of executions is probably
much higher than the figures included in the Report of Hands Off Cain.
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