06 November 2020 :
Hengaw Report on Execution of Nearly 400 Kurdish Citizens Over the Past Five Years.
Hengaw: In coinciding with the eighteenth anniversary of the International Day against the Death Penalty, Hengaw Organization for Human Rights publishes the execution statistics of the Kurdish citizens since 2016 to 2020 in Iranian prisons.
Based on the statistics registered by Hengaw, since the begining of 2016 to October 10th, 2020, at least 391 Kurdish citizens have been executed in Iranian prisons.
During this time at least 5 detainees who were younger than 18 years of age at the time of committing the crime were executed in Kurdistan prisons. They were identified as: Zeynab Sakawandi, Farhad Akbari, Hamid Owsati, Amin Mohammadpour and Shayan Saeedpour.
During this period, at least 12 citizens were executed in public.
Dividing the death penalty.
Cases based on political or religious activities: 46 cases, 12% in total.
Drug related crimes: 154 cases, 37.5% in total.
Homicide: 194 cases, 49.5% in total.
Theft: 3 cases, 0.5% in total.
Rape: 3 cases, 0.5% in total.
Most of the death executions (187 cases) were carried out in West Azerbaijan Province. Kermanshah and Kurdistan Provinces have 69 and 67 cases accordingly, which gives them the second and third place.
