News : Human rights

30 years ago, the Iranian regime, committed a heinous crime and massacred 30,000 political prisoners, most of whom were the members or sympathizers of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK).

The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK) published a report, on October 13, about the mounting pressure on Iranian prisoners and worsening humanitarian and human rights conditions inside Iran's prisons.

Thursday marked the 17^th annual World Day Against the Death Penalty, and thus it provided another opportunity for human rights advocates to highlight Iran’s status as the world’s second most prolific user of capital punishment. Yet the Iranian regime hold the record of execution per capita.

Once upon a time, it seemed impossible to imagine a world without the death penalty. Dictators used the gallows to strangle any opposing voice. They pursued to insinuate the people that there is only a way to counter crimes, and it is the physical removal of criminals and guilty people.

Authorities in the northern Iranian city of Rasht carried out the latest in a long line of public executions on Wednesday, hanging a man who had allegedly killed a security agent.

Iran Human Rights Monitor has released its monthly report about human rights abuses in Iran for the month of September. As always, we have summarised the report below, but you can full thing here.