Considering that the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran has been drastically deteriorating in the past three years, the UN Secretary General and the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran have issued annual reports depicting the worsening conditions of human rights in Iran.
The UN General Assembly’s annual resolutions on Iran have denounced the violations of human rights with ever-growing majority.
The government has totally ignored the recommendations made during the 2010 UPR and utterly failed to fulfill even the recommendations it agreed to.
Islamic Republic of Iran ranks second to China in regard to absolute number of executions.
In the past three years, at least 553 (2010), 634 (2011) and more than 544 (2012) executions have been recorded.
Death sentence is imposed for more than 20 categories of offenses, including for non-serious offenses, such as drugs-related and economic offenses; as well as ambiguously worded offenses such as moharebeh (waging war on God) and corruption on earth, mostly for political prisoners;
Strangulation is the most frequently used inhuman method of execution; stoning is another cruel method stipulated in law and practiced; several persons are facing the sentence of death by stoning.
Today, thousands of prisoners are on death row in Iran.

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