Highest number of monthly executions in several years in Iran

Iran Human Rights, August 5: According to the analysis by "Iran Human Rights" month of July 2008 had among the highest number of monthly executions in the past several years.

Number of exections:
 At least 71 people were executed in Iran in July 2008. 65 of the executions were announced by the official governmental media, while 6 of the executions were reported by the Human Rights activists in Iran.

Mass executions:
  php?article527" class='spip_in'>29 people were executed in Tehran’s Evin prison on July 27. This is the highest number of executions taken place in a single day in many years.

Execution of minor offenders:
 Two minor offenders identified as Hassan Mozaffari and Rahman Shahidi were executed in Bushehr on July 22. Several human rights organizations, among them "Iran Human rights", in a joint statement condemned the mass hangings of 29 people in Tehran, as well as execution of the two minors in Bushehr on July 22.

Public hangings:
 10 people were hanged in public (four in Borazjan and 6 in Sabzevar), after several months without public hangings.

Public floggings:
 At least 2 public floggings were reported in the Iranian media. In one of the cases 5 men were flogged 71 times each. In the other case one man was flogged 70 times, but flogging of the other man was halted due to public protests

This report doesn’t include arbitrary arrestations and maltreatment of the prisoners that have taken place in July and that other organizations have reported.

A new list of more than 130 minor offenders on the death row in Iran was published on July 9, along with a joint statement from 20 human rights organizations calling for immediate enforcement of international prohibition on death penalty for juvenile offenders