Iran: two NGOs denounce a "frenzy of executions"
More than 250 people have been executed by Iranian justice since the beginning of the year, according to a press release from two NGOs including Amnesty International.
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More than 250 people have been executed by Iranian justice since the beginning of the year, according to a press release from two NGOs including Amnesty International.
This figure is already dangerously close to the number of executions carried out over the whole of 2021.
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In June 2022, at least twelve people were executed in a single day in the province of Alborz (north-west) as well as in that of Sistan and Balochistan (south-east).
Iran, according to civil society, is experiencing a major crackdown as protests continue over living conditions amid a severe economic crisis.
Roya Boroumand is the director of the Abdorrahman Boroumand center, co-signer of the press release.
Questioned by
Oriane Verdier
, of the international service of RFI, she considers that the main cause of this increase in executions is the problem of prison overcrowding: “
these directives were given by the head of the Iranian judicial system and even by the Supreme Guide himself. even, in recent months, for measures to be taken to reduce the prison population.
Among these measures, the most visible and the easiest is to speed up the processing of each case.
In a country where judicial procedures are already systematically violated, this ultimately leads to summary trials and executions.
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These directives were given by the head of the Iranian judicial system and even by the Supreme Leader himself.
Roya Boroumand, Director of the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
Oriane Verdier
Above all, the director of the center fears that this increase in pace is only the beginning: “
We are very worried because this has already happened in the 2000s. Again, due to prison overcrowding.
In the same way, the authorities had given directives to deal with ongoing cases more quickly.
According to some reports in 2015, there were more than
1,054 executions.
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Trade unionists, intellectuals but also filmmakers were arrested, including director
Mohammad Rasoulof
whose film
The Devil Does Not Exist
, about the death penalty in Iran, won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2020.
(And with
AFP
)
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