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improvement since it has reduced the number of executions for infractions not amounting to most serious crimes. The amendment, however, only reduces, not eliminates entirely, the number of drug convictions one can be sentenced to death for. Between 2000 and mid-2017, the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran has documented around 8,200 executions carried out by Iran’s judiciary.23 Between January 1, 2018 and December 20, 2018, 256 reports have been registered by the Department of Statistics and Publication of Human Rights Activists Association in Iran. This included 195 death sentences, and 236 people with death sentences were executed (including 13 public executions). Based on the announced identifications of some of the individuals executed, 232 were male and 4 were female. 6 of those executed were juvenile offenders who were under the age of 18 at the time of committing the crime. According to Iran Human Rights, at least 267 people were executed in 2020, including 4 juvenile offenders.24 The same year, a political prisoner named Hedayat Abdullahpour was secretly executed by firing squad, a method not used since the 1980s. 25 And while no stoning punishments have been reported since 2009, a recent directive issued by the Head of the Judiciary in June 2019 described in detail how death sentences by hanging, stoning and crucifixion should be implemented.26 No issuance of stoning sentences has been reported in the last few years.27 Photos show that children are frequently present at public executions.28 Recommendation Status: This recommendation has NOT been implemented.29 23 Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran https://iranhr.net/en/articles/4727 25 https://iranhr.net/en/articles/4294 26 https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/1152670 27 Numbers based on articles submitted to HRANA statistics center. 28 Iran Human Rights and ECPM, Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran 2019 (2020), 38. 29 For more please see: Iran Human Rights and ECPM, Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran 2019 (2020) and https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/2891/2020/en/ 24 4

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Mechanism: Special Rapporteur - Iran

Date: Mar 1, 2015

Paragraph number: 88

Full Recommendation: High priority should be placed on amending laws and policies that undermine or violate internationally recognized rights and standards, and that therefore diminish the Government's capacity to address concerns highlighted during the review and presented in the present and other reports produced by the human rights mechanisms. The Government should rescind laws that render as offences activities conducted to exercise legitimate rights under international law, including any laws that restrict the press, criminalize expression, limit access to information and give rise to the ongoing arrests of civil society actors and members of vulnerable groups, including religious and ethnic minorities, as well as laws that apply the death penalty to offences, such as drug-trafficking, that are not considered to be "most serious crimes" under international law. Moreover, the mandatory use of the death penalty is not compatible with the fair trial safeguards required under international law for the application of the death penalty and should be reconsidered.

Recommendation Status: Not Implemented

Themes

Freedom of expression
Liberty and Security of the person
Right to fair trial
Right to life

Demographics

Civil Society
General Population, individual cases, miscellaneous
Religious, Ethnic and Linguistic Minorities

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