Posted on 10/27/2021 6:53:55 AM PDT by george76
Javaid Rehman, the UN independent investigator on human rights in Iran, said Monday that more than 250 Iranians were executed in 2020, including nine women and four child offenders. More than 230 executions have been carried out this year already.
Rehman said that Iran was carrying out state-sponsored executions “at an alarming rate,” and “the absence of official statistics and lack of transparency around executions means that this practice escapes scrutiny, resulting in serious abuses [and] preventing accountability.”
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Iran was the top executioner in the Middle East last year, accounting for more than half the region’s 493 executions, followed by Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Amnesty’s annual figures exclude China, where executions believed to number in the thousands are classified as a state secret, and omit executions from some countries marred by conflict like Syria.
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Jailing, beating, torturing, and sometimes executing activists as well as intimidating victims’ families are classic totalitarian tactics to keep the people in line.
While “human rights” appears to have a lot of fluidity in its meaning around the world, state-sponsored murder is pretty easy to spot. It’s just one more black mark against the Iranian theocrats
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250 out of 84 million sounds weak.
They need to up their execution game.
Yet, word leaks out.
Expectations of Persian savagery go unmet.
Thanks, Joe!
(Of course, Biden has little ability to affect what then mullahs do in their own country, but I will blame him anyway. Kinda like blaming Trump for everything bad. Turnabout is fair play.)
Well, it's sexist and patronizing to give light sentences to women. #metoo #timesup
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