{"id":65520,"date":"2024-10-11T08:25:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T06:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=65520"},"modified":"2024-10-11T08:25:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T06:25:01","slug":"global-no-to-executions-campaign-in-iran-gains-momentum-1500-dignitaries-from-78-countries-support-maryam-rajavis-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/human-rights\/2024\/10\/global-no-to-executions-campaign-in-iran-gains-momentum-1500-dignitaries-from-78-countries-support-maryam-rajavis-call\/65520\/","title":{"rendered":"Global ‘No to Executions’ Campaign in Iran Gains Momentum: 1,500 Dignitaries from 78 Countries Support Maryam Rajavi’s Call"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Global \u201cNo to Executions\u201d Campaign in Iran Gains Support from 1,500 Dignitaries Across 78 Countries in Response to Maryam Rajavi\u2019s Appeal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran HRM<\/a>) issued a compelling statement on October 10, 2024, amplifying the global demand to halt executions in Iran. Backed by 1,500 dignitaries from 78 nations, this appeal responds to the call made by Maryam Rajavi<\/a>. The statement highlights the disturbing rise in executions under the leadership of Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran\u2019s current president, noting that hundreds of prisoners, including women, were executed in just August 2024 alone.<\/p>\n

Referring to data from Amnesty International, Iran HRM emphasized that Iran was responsible for 74% of the world\u2019s recorded executions in 2023\u2014a figure that has only increased since Pezeshkian<\/a> took office. The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran (FFMI) reported in March 2024 that many death sentences were issued following \u201csummary\u201d trials. The FFMI concluded that the Iranian regime\u2019s human rights violations, including murder, imprisonment, torture, and sexual violence, amount to \u201ccrimes against humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his July 2024 report<\/a>, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Iran, Professor Javaid Rehman, reiterated these concerns, labeling the 1988 massacre<\/a> of 30,000 political prisoners as \u201cgenocide\u201d and condemning the regime\u2019s ongoing mass executions, torture, and other acts of violence against political opposition with \u201cgenocidal intent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran HRM also emphasized that the regime uses executions to suppress dissent and maintain control through fear. \u201cIranian authorities are carrying out these executions for political reasons, using terror to quash potential uprisings,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n

Since early 2024, political prisoners in 22 Iranian prisons have organized weekly hunger strikes as part of the \u201cNo to Executions\u201d campaign, which has gained significant international attention. Human rights activists and Iranian dissidents have rallied behind Maryam Rajavi<\/a>\u2019s call for the abolition of the death penalty<\/a>. Mrs. Rajavi<\/a>, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI<\/a>), reaffirmed her position during the International Jurists\u2019 Conference on August 24, 2024, in Paris.<\/p>\n

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Conference Featuring Distinguished Jurists, Legal Experts, and Eminent International #HumanRights<\/a> Advocates
The urgent need to hold Iranian regime leaders accountable for executions and massacres and end their impunity#Iran<\/a>https:\/\/t.co\/Kgaz9biYJN<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/e2XYyTJWpo<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) August 27, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>