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In 2023 alone, 853 people were executed in Iran. From July 22 to August 11, 2024, 82 individuals, including 6 women, were sent to the gallows.
Iran is the highest executioner per capita in the world. Following the nationwide uprisings which took place in September 2022, women and youth have been the primary targets of arrests, imprisonment, and executions. Every day, more people are called on by the state to carry out their prison sentences.
We must act now to save their lives!
But what can we do…?
Rallies and Protests: We must be the voice of protesters and political prisoners on the international stage.
Publications and Media: We broadcast and publish up-to-date information about the situation of political prisoners, which we receive from their families from inside Iran, through press media and satellite TV.
Meetings and Conferences: We must provide evidence and dossiers of crimes against humanity in Iran, for our MPs, the UN, and human rights lawyers.
Petitions: We must insist that the international community puts pressure on the Iranian regime to stop executions immediately and without delay.
Can we count on your support?
Life in Iran means constantly having to look over your shoulder, lest you should be attacked or arrested by security forces.
The fundamentalist and misogynist regime aims to control the people by means of instilling fear. This may take the shape of:
Arrest and imprisonment of protesters
Suppression of women and girls
Poverty which causes the destruction of childhood innocence.
Dwindling opportunities for the youth and students
Execution of political prisoners, regardless of their original sentence
Prisoners of
Conscience
Political dissent brings with it great risks. The Iranian regime has a complete disregard for Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Assembly and Association, therefore they view even peaceful protests as a threat.
There have been a number of nationwide protests and uprisings calling for freedom and each time, thousands have been arbitrarily detained, abducted off the streets or from their homes for their participation.
Similarly, workers’ rights and women’s rights activists are arrested and imprisoned because of their complaints against the state.
When these people are imprisoned, there is no guarantee that they will be released. In fact, there is a very high probability that they will be killed under torture or even executed.
Mowlud Safaei
Prisoners endure torture and violence from guards. The prisoners families may also be harassed by security forces
Maryam Akbari Monfared is the longest serving female political prisoner in Iran with 18 years of imprisonment.
Sulmaz Hassanzadeh
Nasrin Hassani
Women
Since 1979, women have been the primary targets of the Iranian regime’s brutalities, simply for being women.
All aspects of their lives are controlled by the government and authorities: their clothing, their role as mothers, wives, and daughters in the household, their position in the workplace.
As a result, they often have half the rights of their male counterparts and face severe discrimination.
Women and girls are under constant watch from the so-called ‘morality police’ whose sole purpose is to ensure that women and girls behave in accordance with the misogynist laws of the regime.
The so-called ‘Morality Police’ patrol the streets and metros of Iran, warning women about their clothing and conduct.
Economic hardship hits women the worst since they have low wages and are often not in control of their finances.
Children
The concept of ‘childhood’ is fraught with difficulties in Iran. With socioeconomic pressures on families, children are forced to grow up very quickly and take on responsibilities far heavier and more dangerous than any child should ever have to take on.
The regime’s laws facilitate the exploitation of children. The legal age of marriage for girls is as low as 9 years, and boys may become child-soldiers.
There has also been an emergence of ‘trash mafias’ which exploit children by having them collect rubbish from the streets in a pay-by-weight system. These children may be beaten and harassed or even sexually abused as they work, and often have to work obscenely long hours.
Young girls may become child-brides at the age of 9.
The rise of ‘trash mafias’ leaves children vulnerable to physical abuse.
Youth
The youth of Iran represent the future of a great nation. However, they are prevented from fulfilling their full potential in education and the workplace.
Students have been the leading voice for freedom in Iran for the past 150 years of Iran’s history. They have led protests across the country and as a result they have paid dearly with their lives. Award-winning student scientists and gold medal winning sports men and women have been arrested and even executed by the regime, because they dared to speak up.
Female students have been prevented from entering their university campus, even on exam days, because their hijabs are deemed improper. Male students, who, later in life, go on to become the main breadwinners of their families, struggle to find work in an ever shrinking market.
Iran has some of the brightest students greatest intellectuals, however, due to both lack of job security as well as risk of persecution, more and more are leaving the country in search of work, leaving Iran with one of the highest levels of brain drain anywhere in the world.
Universities are the hubs of student protests.
Award-winning students Amirhossein Moradi and Ali Younesi have been imprisoned since 2020.
Executions
Arbitrary killings and executions are the no.1 tool for systematic oppression in Iran. The Iranian regime executes prisoners in order to silence dissenting voices and prevent the spread of protests.
Throughout its 45 year reign, the Iranian regime has used multiple opportunities to execute protesters and prisoners of conscience en masse; from the 1988 Massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran, to the recent nationwide uprisings.
Many of the volunteers at Inspired and members of the wider community are former political prisoners and have witnessed these atrocities with their own eyes. Therefore we know first hand about the horrors of the regime’s prisons, as well as the struggles faced by those who have escaped persecution and sought refuge in the UK.
Workers’ rights activist, Sharifeh Mohammadi, is at risk of execution!
In 1988 30,000 political prisoners were sent to the gallows.