Iran Surpasses 500 Executions in 2022

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Iran has executed more than 500 people to date in 2022, constituting "the highest rate in five years," according to the Norway-based nonprofit Iran Human Rights (IHR).
47% : Tehran's extensive use of the death penalty reflects the will of Iran's supreme leader, who directly appoints the head of the judiciary, who in turn appoints all judges.
45% :Tehran often executes defendants without any semblance of due process.
45% : "Islamic law allows for the execution of juvenile offenders starting at age nine for girls and age 13 for boys, the legal age of maturity," according to the State Department's 2021 annual report on human rights in Iran.
41% : Iran is the world's top executioner of juvenile offenders.
38% : Tehran executed a prisoner today for allegedly wounding a paramilitary officer during nationwide protests, the first formal execution of a demonstrator since the unrest began in September.
38% : "- Tzvi Kahn, FDD Research Fellow and Senior EditorUnder Iranian law, the number of crimes subject to capital punishment ranks among the world's highest, including adultery, sodomy, apostasy, drug use, and moharebeh (waging war against God) -- a nebulous charge the regime mainly employs to punish those whom it perceives as opponents of its radical Islamist ideology.
33% : The United States should explicitly endorse the Iranian people's call for regime change and state that no nuclear agreement with Iran is on the table so long as the regime continues its systematic violations of human rights.
27% : Iran regularly broadcasts forced confessions on state media.
16% : "There are extensive, vague and arbitrary grounds in Iran for imposing the death sentence, which quickly can turn this punishment into a political tool," said Javaid Rehman, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, in October 2021.

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