Special Report: Repression and Execution under Iran regime, year 1400

Repression and execution under Iran regime in year 1400 mounts to at least 366 executions, 3576 arrests and 119 murders.

At least 366 executions, 3,576 arrests and 119 murders by the regime in 1400 (March 21, 2021- March 21, 2022), is the Black Record of the Islamic Republic in one year.

The human rights center of “No to Prison- No to Execution”,  March 19, 2022- A statistical report on repression and executions in 1400, shows the continuation and increasing tide of repression and execution in Iran, arbitrary arrests, violations of freedom of expression and civil liberties, arbitrary killings by government officials, torture and heavy sentences in prisons for political prisoners, as well as the suppression of ethnic and religious minorities, in Iran under the theocratic regime of Islamic Republic.

Statistical Report:

Execution: At least 366 people in one year

Arrests: 3,567 people in one year

Arbitrary killings: 119 citizens killed in one year

Execution of at least 366 prisoners in 1400:

According to the Statistics Center of the Human Rights Center of “No to Prison- No to Execution”, at least 366 prisoners were executed in 1400.

The statistics of the executions are divided as follows:

• 342 men
• 13 women
• seven child offenders (including 6 men and one woman)
• 4 political prisoners

The monthly number of executions is as follows:

• Month of Farvardin (March 21, 2021- April 20, 2021): 20 prisoners
• Month of Ordibehesht (April 21- May 21): 11 prisoners
• Month of Khordad (May 22- June 21): 14 prisoners
• Month of Tir (June 22- July 22): 49 prisoners
• Month of Mordad (July 23- August 22): 39 prisoners
• Month of Shahrivar (August 23- September 22): 27 prisoners
• Month of Mehr (September 23- October 22): 36 prisoners
• Month of Aban (October 23- November 21): 20 prisoners
• Month of Azar (November 22- December 21): 44 prisoners
• Month of Day (December 22- January 20, 2022): 44 prisoners
• Month of Bahman (January 21- February 19): 22 prisoners
• Month of Isfand (February 20- March 21): 40 prisoners (the statistic is until today, March 19 and it may add up in the three days remaining from year 1400)
  
  

Most of the executions took place in Gohardasht, Urmia, Zahedan and Esfahan prisons.

Execution of child offenders:

Despite international condemnations for stopping the execution of child offenders in Iran, at least seven juvenile offenders were executed during this period, one of whom was a woman.
Because of the silence of the families and the wall of censorship, the statistics are likely more.

The names of the child offenders executed are:

1. Baha’uddin Qasemzadeh at Urmia Central Prison 
2. Ebrahim Shahbakhsh at Isfahan Central Prison
3. Sajjad Sanjari in Kermanshah Prison
4. Arman Abdolali in Gohardasht Prison
5. Ali Akbar Mohammadi in Neyshabur Prison
6. Mohammad Novice in Meshginshahr prison
7. Khatoon Hamidi in Qazvin Central Prison.

Execution of women in Iran in 1400:

At least 14 women were executed in 1400 (one of them a child offender)

Execution of political prisoners:

At least four political prisoners were executed in 1400.

1. Haidar Ghorbani, 48, was executed at Sanandaj Central Prison on the charge of Baghi (taking up arms against the state) and membership in the Kurdistan Democratic Party on December 19, 2021.
2. Abdolbasat Rigi, 33, from Saravan, was executed on January 17, 2022, after three years in prison on the charge of Moharebeh (waging war on God).
3. And 4- Merhan Naqdi and Jahanbakhsh Abbasi were executed on January 12, 2022 at Khorramabad Central Prison on the charge of Moharebeh for setting fire to a gas station in khorramabad’s Dara-e Garm neighborhood and killing two police officers in 2018.

Arrests in 1400:

According to reports collected by the Human Rights Center of “No to Prison- No to Execution” in 1400, at least 3,567 citizens were arrested by government agents:

1. Political arrests: 1,918
2.  arbitrary arrests: 476
3.  Social arrests: 1,103
4.  Arrests of followers of other religions: 70

Political arrests:

Political arrests include arrests made of citizens during nationwide protests, protests by teachers, workers, retirees and other strata, arrests during boycotts of the sham elections, during funerals for regime’s victims, holding religious ceremonies, etc. 

At least 1,000 citizens were arrested during the Khuzestan uprising (known as the Uprising of the Thirsty Citizens). (In the statistics of arrests of political prisoners only the number 300 of these compatriots whose names are available to the Human Rights Center of “No to Prison- No to Execution” has been included and 700 others were not as we couldn’t obtain their names.)

During the Esfahan uprising, hundreds of compatriots were arrested.

Arbitrary arrests:

Arbitrary arrests were made under various titles, including the “publication of unethical images on the Internet”, “participation in ceremonies and celebrations”, “attempts to produce and publish hidden camera videos”, “participation in mixed-gender parties”, etc. It was carried out by government and security agents.

Social arrests:

Social arrests were made on charges including theft, robberies, fraud and …

Arrests of followers of other religions

These arrests are related to followers of the Baha’i faith and Christianity.

Torture in 1400 in Iran’s prisons:

In 1400, government agents continued to use the levers of torture to suppress prisons.

The methods of torture used in prisons were on one hand obvious tortures, such as flogging, limb breaking, and other such torture for pressuring the prisoner for forced confessions, and on the other hand psychological tortures such as throwing a prisoner in solitary confinement or transferring an inmate to high-security cells and holding a prisoner in such conditions for a very long time.

Depriving prisoners of their minimum rights, starving prisoners, having them sleep on the floors in overcrowded cells, lack of facilities in prisons, not delivering prisoners’ medicine, ban on contact and visitation, etc., are other forms of torture as levers to crush and suppress prisoners.

Outside prisons, we have also witnessed youths being showcased in the cities’ streets on the pretext of being a thug and humiliating them in public.

Arbitrary killings in 1400:

In 1400, according to statistics compiled by the Human Rights Center of “No to Prison- No to Execution”, at least 119 citizens were killed by armed government agents.
The 119 include Kolbars (border porters), fuelers, fishermen, shepherds, businessmen, etc.
In most of these cases, citizens have been murdered by armed agents of the Border Regiment, marines, police forces, IRGC forces (Islamic Revolutionary Guards forces), Basij agents, and plainclothes officers.

Murder in prisons in 1400: At least eight prisoners were killed under torture, four were murdered in prisons, and one was killed as being subject to the indifference by prison officials while on hunger strikes.

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