NCRI – Mrs. Farideh Karimi, a member of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the National Council of Resistance of Iran said in a television interview that Iranian regime increases execution as the world moves to abolish death penalty.
“According to the regime’s official media from December 3 to December 25, 26 prisoners were executed. Twenty-three of the twenty-six executions were conducted in public,” Karimi said in an interview with satellite TV Simaye Azadi (IranNTV.com),
“As stated many times by the regime, mass executions are carried out with the purpose of intimidation and repression the population.”
“The timing of executions carried out in exactly the opposite direction of the global consensus on executions. On 20 December the UN General Assembly in New York, adopted a resolution calling for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide. This resolution that is put to vote every two years was adopted this year, with an unprecedented 111 positive votes.
“This number of votes is a clear signal that contrary to the claims of the clerical regime that it is only the Western countries are for a moratorium on executions, it is a worldwide movement.
“It should be noted that out of 193 countries in the world, about 150 countries have formally abolished the death penalty in practice.
“Iran under the clerical regime has the highest number of executions per capita, or in other words has the first ranking in the world in regards to executions.”
