THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE AGAINST EXECUTION

THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE AGAINST EXECUTION

كميته بين المللى عليه اعدام

Help Put an End to Execution in Iran

Petition statement to all human rights organization in the world

Iran is the execution capital of the world

According to Amnesty International, the Islamic Republic of Iran and three others are responsible for 90 percent of all executions worldwide in 2001. In 2002, executions escalated in Iran. Executions have always been one of the mainstays of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Islamic regime established itself from 20 June 1981 with widespread executions. Since then, and particularly in 1988, the regime has executed 100,000 political opponents, progressives, communists, women, labor activists, people attributed to religious and ethnic minorities, youth and gays and lesbians and so on. There are ample statistics, documents and witnesses to prove this.

With escalating protests against the entirety of Islamic rule, the regime has once again stepped up its executions in order to intimidate the protesting public. In the first ten days of January 2003 alone, 17 people were either executed or sentenced to execution. The regime executes and stones people to death indiscriminately and for a wide range of 'offences' including adultery, apostasy, homosexuality, lesbianism, 'corruption on earth' and so on. Adultery is punishable by death by stoning in law; the law even specifies the size of the stone to be used. While some officials of the regime have stated that there is a moratorium on stoning [thanks to the efforts of the International Committee against Stoning], they have stressed that it is temporary and that in the meanwhile, alternative forms of punishment, including execution will be used.

Execution of children in Iran

Since 1990 Iran has executed 20 or more people for crimes committed when they were children. In 2005 alone, despite the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child urging them in January to suspend the practice immediately, at least eight child offenders were executed, including two who were still under 18 at the time of their execution. Iran was the first country to execute a child offender during 2006.

At least 21 other child offenders who have been sentenced to death are believed to be in prison in Iran. Children’s rights activists in Iran believe they are being held in prison until after their 18th birthdays, after which the authorities are likely to proceed with their execution.

In recent years, as general disaffection towards Iran’s ruling theocratic regime has increased, the number of public executions has also increased significantly. The number of such executions usually carried out in busy public squares during peak hours, with people sentenced to death hung from cranes has increased.

The international community, in particular European countries, has been quite indifferent to such atrocities. It prefers to engage the Islamic Republic in lucrative business deals, relegating the human rights issue to a mere footnote, a ritualistic and rhetorical passage usually present in high-level discussions with Iranian officials, but never taken seriously or enforced.

For to ending killing people, to ending fear in social, to commend humanity, to defense of defenseless prisoners, must become united to complain in the worldwide:

We urge the United Nations, European Union, and all other international human rights organizations to take strong actions against Islamic Republic of Iran and to send representatives to Iran to investigate these violations of human rights.

We demand immediate abolition of death penalty in Iran.

We call upon all human rights supporters, activists and organizations to notify their governments of these atrocities.

We urge to pressure the government of Iran to free all political prisoners, including all workers, students and bloggers, and to help prevent further widespread mass execution of the prisoners.

We ask all freedom supporters to unite in condemning these atrocities by forwarding this petition to friends, family and international media.

We support the efforts of the International Committee against Execution for ending execution in Iran. We call upon all to do the same.