Iran: At least 160 prisoners are on the death row

Ahmad Shaheed, the UN’s top expert on the human rights situation in Iran, expressed his concern about the high number of executions in Iran.  In his report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, on Monday, March 14th, Shaheed said, “At least 966 persons -- the highest rate in over two decades -- were executed in Iran in 2015” ,  In 2014, 753 people were executed.
Shaheed added that “at least 73 juvenile offenders were reportedly executed between 2005 and 2015, 16 of them in the past two years alone”.

“At least 160 others are awaiting the same fate on death row,” he added.