Statistics of Executions in Iran 2000-2009
More than 400 in 2009 (report by Persian2English)

Political Executions Indication of Government’s Insecurity:
The Campaign for Human Rights in Iran condemned the execution of five political prisoners, including Farzad Kamangar, a 34-year-old teacher and social worker, who was charged with Moharebeh (taking up arms against God), convicted and sentenced to death in February 2008, after a seven-minute long trial in which “zero evidence” was presented. Four others also executed included Shirin Alam Holi, Ali Heidarian, Farhad Vakili and Mehdi Eslamian.

The International Trade Union Confideration (ITUC) has strongly condemned the execution of the teacher and trade unionist Farzad Kamangar, together with four other prisoners on Sunday 9 May. According to the information received by the ITUC, Farzad Kamangar was sentenced after a court process that did not meet international or Iranian standards for a fair trial.


January 2010:
Amnesty International has condemned the execution of two men arrested during protests that followed Iran's disputed presidential election last year. Mohammad Reza Ali-Zamani and Arash Rahmanipour were hanged after being convicted in unfair trials of “enmity against God”.


May 2009:
Human rights groups have protested against the execution of a young Iranian woman for a murder
committed when she was 17 years old.
Amnesty International said it was outraged by Delara Darabi's hanging and that she did not get a fair trial.

December 2007:
Amnesty International condemns the execution, on 4 December 2007, of Makwan Moloudzadeh, an Iranian Kurdish child offender, following a grossly flawed trial for an offence he allegedly committed at the age of 13. Execution for a crime committed at the age of 13 is a gross abuse of international human rights standards, which prohibit the execution of those convicted of crimes committed under the age of 18.



Berichte über die Hinrichtung eines 16 Jähriges Mädchens (Atefeh) im Iran- 2004:
WDR- 40 minutuger Beitrag
Dailymotion





List of 114 Child Offenders Awaiting Execution in the Islamic Republic of Iran
The worldwide campaign to abolish the death penalty has resulted in the UN General Assembly Resolution 10678 on December 18, 2007, calling for a moratorium on the death penalty. In Iran, the number of executions has increased by 362% since 2005 when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became president. In 2005, Iran executed at least 86 people; this number rose to 312 in 2007.
According to Amnesty International, Iran executes more people than any other country in the world except China.
read more source:(www.iranhumanrights.org, 24.July 2010)


U4Iran: Halt Executions - Save Zeinab Jalalian!

amnesty international: Iran: Fears for two women facing execution for adultery and 'enmity against God'
Save Zeinab Jalalian and Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani



Iran's execution of five tortured political prisoners condemned
Amnesty International condemned the executions in Iran of four Kurdish political activists and another Iranian man, all convicted of “moharebeh” (enmity against God)”. The four Kurds – Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heydarian, Farhad Vakili, Shirin Alam-Holi - along with Mehdi Eslamian, were hanged on Sunday, 9 May at Evin prison in Tehran. (11 May 2010)




Further reports on executions (by Iran Human Rights)

Steinigung vorerst ausgesetzt: (www.amnesty.at, 24. Juli 2010)
Der 43-jährigen Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, Mutter zweier Kinder, droht im Gefängnis von Tabriz im Nordwesten des Iran die Hinrichtung. Am 8. Juli 2010 gab die iranische Botschaft in London bekannt, dass die Frau vorerst nicht durch Steinigung hingerichtet werde. Das Todesurteil könne jedoch zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt in Form einer Steinigung oder auf andere Weise vollstreckt werden.



Amnesty campaign for eight women at risk of being stoned to death:
Background
Iran's Penal Code prescribes execution by stoning. It even dictates that the stones are large enough to cause pain, but not so large as to kill the victim immediately. Article 102 of the Penal Code states that men should be buried up to their waists and women up to their breasts for the purpose of execution by stoning. Article 104 states, with reference to the penalty for adultery, that the stones used should "not be large enough to kill the person by one or two strikes; nor should they be so small that they could not be defined as stones".
The majority of those sentenced to death by stoning are women, who suffer disproportionately from such punishment. One reason is that they are not treated equally before the law and courts, in clear violation of international fair trial standards. The age of criminal responsiblity for women is lower than that for men and a woman's testimony is worth only half that of a man. They are particularly vulnerable to unfair trials because in Iran they are more likely than men to be illiterate and more likely to sign confessions to crimes they did not commit. Discrimination against women in other aspects of their lives also leaves them more susceptible to conviction for adultery, said Amnesty.



Sensationalist Film Exploits Human Rights Issue in Iran
The Stoning of Soraya M, the purportedly true story of the brutal execution by stoning of an innocent Iranian village woman. For one thing, the film is marked by crude story-telling: the main character, Soraya, is merely a mutely suffering victim while her brutish husband, who falsely accuses her of adultery so that he can marry a teen-aged girl, is a cardboard caricature of evil and malice.



Further reports on Stoning in Iran (by Iran Human Rights)