HARROWING data leaked from Iran’s torturous prisons reveal 5,370 individuals are holed up on dying row on prices as petty as ingesting alcohol or insulting the Supreme Chief.
The categorised paperwork embrace 51 individuals condemned to vile stoning deaths and a few 3,802 prisoners set to be executed on the nation’s barbaric “eye for a watch” legal guidelines – often known as Qisas.
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These condemned to Qisas are sometimes maimed and executed by victims’ grieving households
The merciless legislation is designed to inflict as a lot ache as attainable in retaliation – together with having eyes gouged out, fingers chopped off and even the mass, public hangings.
Shock data, obtained by The Solar On-line from sources of the Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) smuggled from inside Iran’s prisons, reveal the names, ages and prices of these on dying row as of September 26, 2020.
It means some executions might have already been carried out and new ones added.
Some 1,568 women and men on the listing have been sentenced to dying underneath the state’s basic penal code for so-called crimes that would not even render jail time in different nations.
5 individuals are going through executions for “insulting the Supreme Chief” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
An extra six are on dying row for disturbing nationwide safety, whereas 33 are on the listing for ingesting alcohol amongst different prices.
Primarily based on secret data obtained from the Prisons Organisation, there are 183 ladies amongst these going through the merciless punishment.
Hossein Abedini, deputy director of the UK workplace of the NCRI, mentioned it quantities to “genocide”.
He informed The Solar On-line: “Iran’s regime is the world’s primary executioner per capita.
“Final yr, it executed extra individuals than all the opposite nations of the world mixed, apart from China. Final week alone, the regime carried out 38 executions.
“The growing fee of executions and the inhumane and medieval punishments being handed down in Iran is indicative of the regime’s concern of public outrage and uprisings.
“Nevertheless, the individuals of Iran are decided to overthrow the spiritual fascism ruling Iran as they did with the Shah’s brutal dictatorship.
“The battle will proceed till the institution of a republic primarily based on democratic values.”
The growing fee of executions and the inhumane and medieval punishments being handed down in Iran is indicative of the regime’s concern of public outrage and uprisings.
Hossein Abedini
In 2021, Iran recorded the very best identified execution determine since 2017 in a darkish testomony to its dire human rights report.
Worldwide, executions shot up 20 per cent from the yr earlier than – with Iran accounting for the largest portion of the rise, figures from Amnesty Worldwide present.
No less than 314 met their dying in 2021 – up from at the very least 246 in 2020.
Agnès Callamard, Amnesty Worldwide’s Secretary-Normal, mentioned: “After the drop of their execution totals in 2020, Iran as soon as once more ramped up their use of the dying penalty final yr, together with by shamelessly violating prohibitions put in place underneath worldwide human rights legislation.
“Their urge for food for placing the executioner to work has additionally proven no signal of abating within the early months of 2022.”
Iran has a compulsory dying penalty for possession of sure sorts and portions of medication.
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Different crimes punishable by execution embrace housebreaking, prostitution, rebel, producing porn, treason and homicide.
Ingesting only one glass of alcohol is punishable by 80 lashes – however those that are constantly caught knocking again booze can discover themselves hit with the dying penalty.
Youngsters as younger as 12 are handed the dying penalty – which worldwide legislation forbids.
Most often, prisoners hit with the dying penalty are hanged.
However usually, this isn’t completed on a drop, the place dying comes shortly after the neck is damaged and building cranes are used as an alternative.
The condemned individual is hoisted up on a neck noose and strangled in a sluggish and agonising method.
Crowds are inspired to look at and a few executions are televised – with a number of individuals typically hanged at one time.
In a sick twist to the brutal mass hangings carried out, these awaiting execution have been made to look at others die.
Different strategies of execution embrace stoning with victims subjected to having rocks hurled at their heads whereas trapped in sand.
And for homosexuality, which is deemed a criminal offense in Iran, authorities have been identified to push individuals from heights, reminiscent of off a cliff.
‘THE BUTCHER’
Surprising executions and barbaric punishments proceed to be carried out underneath hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi who grew to become president final summer time regardless of activists claiming he has a bloody historical past steeped in homicide.
Prior to now, Raisi – who has the vile nickname The Butcher – has allegedly ordered the torture of pregnant ladies, had prisoners thrown off cliffs, and had individuals flogged with electrical cords.
He earned his sick nickname over his alleged involvement within the mass execution of political prisoners within the Eighties.
Some 30,000 males, ladies and kids held in prisons throughout Iran had been lined up and shot in opposition to a wall inside just some months, in line with these battling to oust the ultra-conservative regime.
It is reported Raisi was a key member of the so-called “Loss of life Fee” which ordered these individuals to be killed within the 1988 bloodbath – which Iran has by no means acknowledged.
Mr Abedini mentioned: “The rise within the fee of executions in Iran since Raisi took workplace as president is a part of a tradition of impunity that has been fulled partly by the worldwide group’s failure to hunt accountability for the regime’s main previous crimes.”
The NCRI has known as for Raisi to be prosecuted and urged nations together with the UK to take motion.
Mr Abedini added: “How can the UK authorities preserve cordial political and financial relations with a regime that has greater than 5,000 prisoners at the moment on dying row?
“In lots of instances, the regime executes dissidents on different trumped-up prices.
“The file of 4 a long time of crimes in opposition to humanity and genocide dedicated by Iran’s regime should be referred to the UN Safety Council.
“The leaders of the regime, above all, Supreme Chief Ali Khamenei and Ebrahim Raisi, should be prosecuted by the worldwide courts.
“It is excessive time for each the UK authorities and the worldwide community-at-large to shun this regime and finish impunity for its legal leaders.”
An FCDO spokesperson mentioned: “The British Authorities is firmly against the dying penalty in all circumstances and in each nation as a matter of precept.”
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