{"id":27645,"date":"2021-10-22T09:54:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T07:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=27645"},"modified":"2021-10-22T09:54:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T07:54:50","slug":"irans-rising-execution-rate-brings-calls-for-international-jurisdiction-for-regime-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2021\/10\/irans-rising-execution-rate-brings-calls-for-international-jurisdiction-for-regime-officials\/27645\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Rising Execution Rate Brings Calls for International Jurisdiction for Regime Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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High number of Iran executions in 2021 signals worsening rights condition<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With at least 16 executions carried out in Iran just in the second week of October alone, and with barely two months left until 2021 draws to a close, the Iranian regime has already overtaken the number of executions that took place the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In figures reported by the Iran Human Rights Monitor<\/a>, the total number of executions carried out in 2020 was 255, whereas the numbers so far for 2021 stand at 288 as of Monday, October 18. Currently, Iran has the highest annual rate of executions per capita<\/a>, a status they have maintained for a while under the control of the mullahs\u2019 regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)<\/a> said, \u201cIran is also one of only a few countries in the world to routinely issue death sentences for persons who were under the age of 18 at the time of their alleged crimes. This practice is unequivocally banned under international law, as is the use of the death penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regime officials openly acknowledge this fact, blatantly flouting international human rights standards and laws. In other unlawful acts, the regime\u2019s security forces often secure confessions under torture, and murder charges are often used as a pretence for the politically motived executions that take place across Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latter practice was used in the case of Navid Afkari,<\/a> a national champion wrestler accused of killing a security guard during an anti-regime protest. Despite an international campaign to save his life, Afkari was executed in September 2020. Only later did it come to light that there was surveillance footage that proved his innocence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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