Annual Report on the Death Penalty in 2010

Iran Human Rights, February 10: On the eve of the 32th anniversary of the 1979 revolution, Iran Human Rights (IHR) presented its annual report on the death penalty in 2010 in a press conference in Oslo today.

The spokesperson of the organization Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, who presented the report today, said: "The number of annual executions in 2010 is probably the highest since the mass executions of political prisoners in the summer of 1988".

Commenting this report, the spokesperson of IHR Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, said: “The dramatic increase in the number of executions during the past year, and especially numerous reports of unlawful mass-executions in Khorasan province, demands urgent action by the world community”. He added: “The execution numbers are increasing even more in 2011 and have passed far beyond the alarming level”. Amiry-Moghaddam ended:” Several political and non-political prisoners are at imminent danger of execution and we ask the UN to send its Special Rapporteurs to Iran immediately”.

According to the IHR’s annual report at least 546 people have been executed in 2010 in Iran. IHR has also received additional reports of more than 200 executions that haven’t been included in the report due to ongoing investigations.

The full report will be published on IHR’s website soon.