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The regime in Iran was described as being on an “unprecedented execution spree” by the United Nations. The Workplace of the Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) mentioned the Islamic Republic of Iran carried out greater than 1,000 executions for the reason that begin of the 12 months.
With as many as 9 executions every day on the time of their report, OHCHR mentioned that victims have been primarily accused of homicide and drug-related crimes.
In an effort to lift worldwide consciousness of their state of affairs, some 1,500 Iranian prisoners on loss of life row in Ward 2 of Ghezel Hesar Jail staged a starvation strike on Oct. 13. Amongst them have been 17 members of the Iranian dissident group Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK).
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A girl lays down flowers for the victims of executions in Iran in the course of the rally in Paris, France on Could 13, 2025. (Siavosh Hosseini/SOPA Photographs/LightRocket through Getty Photographs)
A spokesperson from the Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), instructed Fox Information Digital that Iran beforehand executed two MEK members on July 27 and has but to return their our bodies to their households.
The starvation strike has unfold to Wards 1 and 4 in Ghezel Hesar Jail, in addition to to the infamous Evin Jail. The NCRI claims that jail officers have tried to interrupt the strike and has shared footage of prisoners in Ward 3 consuming meals to “falsely declare that there isn’t a starvation strike in Ward 2.”
In an unique assertion offered to Fox Information Digital, the placing prisoners mentioned, “Our endurance has run out over this countless oppression and the taking of the lives of prisoners and younger folks. On daily basis and each week, a few of our cellmates are despatched to the gallows, and many people spend our nights within the nightmare of loss of life. These are probably the most agonizing moments of our lives and of our households. We demand the abolition of the death penalty in Iran.”
The NCRI instructed Fox Information Digital that executions have elevated in current days, with 38 executions going down between Oct. 13 and Oct. 15. This drove the overall “variety of executions in the course of the 14½ months of [Masoud] Pezeshkian’s presidency” to “an unprecedented file of two,008 prisoners.”
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks throughout a gathering in Tehran. Iran has confronted worldwide scrutiny over a surge in executions this 12 months. (Iranian Presidency / Handout/Anadolu through Getty Photographs)
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Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the NCRI, referred to as “for instant motion by the United Nations, U.N. Safety Council members, the European Union, and worldwide human rights organizations to finish this horrific nightmare in Iran below the rule of the legal mullahs.”
Iranian prisoners have referred to as on U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres to talk out and intervene on their behalf.
Fox Information Digital requested if the U.S. State Department is contemplating extra sanctions towards Iranian leaders in response to the rash of executions. A State Division spokesperson mentioned, “We strongly condemn the Iranian regime’s use of executions to kill folks for exercising primary human rights, together with peacefully protesting for a greater life.”
Iranian members of the diaspora, activists, gathered in entrance of the German Federal International Workplace in Berlin in the course of the ‘United In opposition to Executions in Iran’ protest on Jan. 27, 2024. Organized by the Echo Iran group, this protest condemned the rise in loss of life sentences by the rulers of the Islamic Republic of Iran. (Echo Iran/Center East Photographs/AFP through Getty Photographs)
“For many years, Iranians have been subjected to torture and sham trials leading to executions and different extreme punishments, typically with these coerced confessions as the one proof introduced towards them. We’ll proceed to carry the Iranian regime accountable, guaranteeing it faces extreme penalties for its heinous acts,” the spokesperson continued.
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Stéphane Dujarric, a spokesman for Guterres, instructed Fox Information Digital, “We stand firmly towards and proceed to sentence using the loss of life penalty in Iran, and wherever else on the earth.”
Earlier this month, the U.N. Human Rights Council drew widespread condemnation after it elected Iran to its advisory committee.
