ANNUAL REPORT ON – 2012 – THE DEATH PENALTY IN IRAN
Iran Human Rights, April 4: Iran Human Rights will present the “Annual report on the death penalty in Iran 2012″ with the French NGO “Ensemble Contre la Peine de Morte” (ECPM) today.
PDF version of the full report can be uploaded here: Rapport_iran_2012-GB-250313-BD
A short version of the report is presented below.
Introduction:
The fifth annual report of Iran Human Rights (IHR) on the death penalty in Iran is an assessment of how the death penalty was used in 2012. Due to harsh crackdowns on civil society, non-existing freedom of press and lack of transparency of the Iranian judicial system, the present report by no means covers all death penalty cases in Iran. The report is the result of efforts by human rights defenders, members and affiliates of IHR in Iran who, on some occasions, took serious risks to help provide a more accurate picture of the death penalty than the official channels do.
The number of executions in 2012 in Iran is