London, 21 Oct - According to reports, at least 3,111 inmates have been executed in Iran between August of 2013 and September of 2017, the years of President Hassan Rouhani’s tenure.
Included in this number are 81 women, and 24 individuals who were arrested while they were under the age of 18. In fact, in August this year, Alireza Tajiki, who was 15 years old at the time of his arrest, was hanged in the city of Shiraz. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Iran and human rights organizations such as Amnesty International strongly condemned Tajiki’s execution.
Iranian political analyst Shahriar Kia, journalist and activist who works closely with the Iranian opposition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said human rights have “deeply deteriorated” under Rouhani’s rule.
Kia went on to say, “Many human rights activists, reporters, college students, and workers have been arrested by security forces, parallel to prisoners being placed under torture.”
Examples of this were seen in recent months, such as the October 5th death of Mohammad Jarahi, political prisoner and labor activist imprisoned for the past five years, who was denied adequate medical treatment. A large number of political and ordinary prisoners remain in need of medical treatment.
Although international organizations have repeatedly called for the Iranian regime to halt executions and torture, human rights abuses continue.
In late September of this year, according to the state-run news agency IRIB, Younes Davoudi, the Deputy Prosecutor of the province of Qom, announced that four prisoners had been executed on drug related charges and at least three prisoners had their hands amputated on theft charges.
