NCRI-In an interview with the government-run news agency, ILNA, on August 21, Rouhullah Hazratpoor, a member of the Justice and Legal Commission in the Iranian Parliament said: “At the moment there are 4500 people who have been sentenced to death.”
He added that the constant stream of arrests does not serve as a deterrent to crime. He argued that rising unemployment and other negative social factors were creating a revolving door prison system and that a solution must be found.
Hazratpoor said: “Right now we are in a defective cycle of crime: a criminal is arrested, sometimes they are freed and they commit crimes again. The truth [is that] repeated crimes are the results of unemployment.”
According to Amnesty International, Iran is the world leader in executions per capita and executed nearly 1000 people in 2015.
