Friday, 3 January 2025

Iran Executed More than 1000 in 2024

Iran 'carried out a THOUSAND executions in 2024' - with prisoners forced to have fingers amputated or EYES gouged out


Iran brutally carried out at least a thousand executions in 2024 as its ruthless leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei attempts to clamp down on political dissidence.

The killings carried out at the hands of the government took place across 86 prisons.

The toll of those executed in 2024 includes 34 women and seven minors and is the highest figure recorded in over three decades. 

119 Baluchi people - a minority group from Iran's Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchistan provinces - were also executed. 

Four executions were barbarically carried out in public. 

However, the number of overall executions could be much higher, taking into consideration that some have been carried out in secret. 

At least 12 prisoners were executed in Iran on New Years Day. 

The barbaric wave of executions are part of Khamenei's 'desperate' attempt to prevent an uprising, with capital punishment used as a way of instilling fear throughout society.

Execution ceremony in Nowshahr, Iran 2014. The country uses capital punishment to discipline those convicted of certain crimes, including murder, theft, adultery and homosexuality

Execution ceremony in Nowshahr, Iran 2014. The country uses capital punishment to discipline those convicted of certain crimes, including murder, theft, adultery and homosexuality 

Iran brutally carried out at least 1000 executions in 2024 as its ruthless leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei attempts to clamp down on political dissidence

Iran brutally carried out at least 1000 executions in 2024 as its ruthless leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei attempts to clamp down on political dissidence

Iran's use of capital punishment has been condemned around the world. Here, a group of protestors can be seen demonstrating against executions in Iran in Brussels, Belgium, 2019

Iran's use of capital punishment has been condemned around the world. Here, a group of protestors can be seen demonstrating against executions in Iran in Brussels, Belgium

'Khamenei resorts to these executions to suppress the people's uprising demanding the regime’s overthrow'

'These atrocities only strengthen the determination of Iran’s youth to overthrow the religious dictatorship.'

'The regime must be ostracized by the international community, and any dealings with it should be conditioned on halting executions and torture. Its leaders must be held accountable before justice.'

Iran is also known to use several other forms of cruel punishments in order to discipline those who defy the nation's cruel regime.

Under the Islamic Republic's penal code, authorities are allowed to use their 'eye for an eye' law, which sees prisoners endure horrific punishments designed to inflict as much pain as possible.

This includes amputating the fingers of people convicted of theft - an act that is widely condemned as abhorrent and illegal by human rights activists across the world.

According to the US-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Centre, Iranian authorities have amputated the fingers of at least 131 men since January 2000.

Punishments also include gouging out the eyes of prisoners and torturing them.

Alongside other human rights campaigners, Amnesty International has called for Iran to halt these callous punishments. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14244497/Iran-THOUSAND-executions-2024-prisoners-forced-fingers-amputated-EYES-gouged.html

A blindfolded man convicted of armed robbery, kidnapping and slaying of two policemen waits to be hanged in public in Tehran, Iran, on April 16, 2011

A blindfolded man convicted of armed robbery, kidnapping and slaying of two policemen waits to be hanged in public in Tehran, Iran

Iran has executed Jamshid Sharmahd, 69, (pictured in court in February 2022) a German-Iranian dissident who lived in Los Angeles County with his family, after abducting him during a layover in Dubai and convicting him on terror charges

Iran executed Jamshid Sharmahd, 69, (pictured in Iranian court) a German-Iranian who lived in Los Angeles County with his family, after abducting him during a layover in Dubai 

Female prisoners in a notorious Iranian prison are reportedly tortured, interrogated for hours on end and repeatedly threatened with execution

Female prisoners in Iranian prisons are tortured, interrogated for hours on end and repeatedly threatened with execution

An executioner stands over a man convicted of being involved in the killing of senior Houthi official Saleh al-Samad

An executioner stands over a man convicted of being involved in the killing of senior Houthi official Saleh al-Samad

Journalist Hassan Hanafi, convicted of murdering colleagues for the Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab jihadist group, is tied to a wooden post before being executed in Mogadishu on April 11, 2016

Journalist Hassan Hanafi, convicted of murdering colleagues for the Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab jihadist group, is tied to a wooden post before being executed

Horrifying footage shows an Afghan woman cowering on the ground as she is stoned to death, in an attack which activists have blamed on the Taliban

An Afghan woman cowering on the ground as she is stoned to death by the Taliban 

A blindfolded and bound couple are stoned to death for having sex before marriage by ISIS

A blindfolded and bound couple are stoned to death by ISIS

Horrific footage showed ISIS militants throwing large stones at the couple to kill them

ISIS militants throwing large stones at the couple to kill them

An Iranian policeman ties the noose around the neck of Majid Ghasemi before being publicly hanged in east Tehran 29 September 2002

An Iranian policeman ties the noose around the neck of Majid Ghasemi before being publicly hanged in east Tehran

The mother (R) of Abdolah Hosseinzadeh, who was murdered in 2007, slaps Balal who killed her son during the execution ceremony in the northern city of Noor, Iran on April 15, 2014

The mother (R) of Abdolah Hosseinzadeh, who was murdered in 2007, slaps Balal who killed her son during the execution ceremony in the northern city of Noor, Iran

An Iranian judiciary official flogs serial killer Mohammad Bijeh before his execution in March 2005

An Iranian judiciary official flogs serial killer Mohammad Bijeh before his execution


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