IRAN - According to Hengaw, 18% of executed in 2019 were Kurds

06 April 2020 :

Hengaw: According to the issued statistics by two Human Rights Organization across Iran and Kurdistan about the execution of citizens, more than 18 percent of executed cases in Iran over the year of 2019 have been Kurdish citizens. According to the report issued by Iran Human Rights Organization, at least 280 citizens have been executed in Iran's prisons over the year of 2019. The Hengaw Organization for Human Rights has previously announced that at least 52 Kurdish citizens have been executed in Iran's prisons. Through comparison of issued statistics by these two organizations, we can conclude that 18.5 percent of the total executed citizens over the year of 2019 have been Kurdish citizens. Over the past year, at least four young people who had been committed crimes in the time of childhood, has been been executed. Two of them were Kurdish citizens. In addition, four citizens from the total 15 executed women, have been Kurdish citizens.

 

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