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Hanging is the only common method of execution in 21st-century Iran, usually carried out in prison. Compared to other countries that use hanging (such as Japan or Malaysia ) with a complex gallows designed to drop the condemned and break the neck, Iran's gallows are very simple and inexpensive.
In Iran, public executions occurred regularly during the Qajar dynasty but declined with the Persian Constitutional Revolution and became a rare occurrence under the Pahlavi dynasty. With the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979, capital punishment and public executions returned on an unprecedented scale.
Iran is carrying out executions “at an alarming rate,” putting to death at least 419 people in the first seven months of the year, the United Nations chief said in a new report. Secretary ...
Human rights groups monitoring Iranian authorities' responses to the Mahsa Amini protests accused the Iranian ruling regime of using executions as an intimidation tactic to "instill fear" in protestors, noting that in the aftermath of the protests, Iran saw an 83% rise in executions. Iran carried out more confirmed executions in 2022 than any ...
Iran typically carries out executions by hanging inside prisons, often for the crime of drug smuggling, Iran Human Rights says. The country executed 500 convicts in 2022, the group says.
Iran’s judiciary has said Iranian-German dissident Jamshid Sharmahd died before his execution was reported by state media late last month. The judiciary’s news agency said on 28 October that ...
The grave of Mohsen Shekhari. On 25 September 2022, Shekari attended a protest against the death of Mahsa Amini in Tehran, Iran's capital city.During the protest, Iranian authorities asserted that he blocked or closed off a main road in Tehran, Sattar Khan Street, [3] and used a machete to non-fatally wound a member of the Basij militia, which was sent in to quell the protests.
Extrajudicial executions and killings are not included. In general, executions carried out in the territory of a sovereign state when it was a colony or before the sovereign state gained independence are not included. The colours on the map correspond to and have the same meanings as the colours in the charts.