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Iranian executions shocked the entire world in 2020, to the point that US President Donald Trump calls for an end to the unjust executions of opponents who did not commit criminal offenses.
In the last hours, the Iranian authorities executed the Sunni politician Abdul Hamid Mir Baluch Zhi, and presented him as one of those accused of “extremism” and of shooting to death “two revolutionary guards” five years ago.
The world has not forgotten Trump’s call on Iran last September not to carry out the death sentence against wrestling champion Naveed Afkari, after a report on Fox News reported that he was sentenced to death for participating in anti-government demonstrations. in 2018.
The subject of my ideas attracted the attention of the world for his forced confessions under severe torture, while some attributed the motive for the execution of the young man to his participation in anti-regime demonstrations.
Iran witnessed protests against deteriorating economic conditions in 2018, to which the authorities responded with severe repression, and arrested large numbers of angry people, whom they described as rioters.
The world and the Iranian people were also distraught in early December, as they carried out the death sentence against a prominent opposition journalist who was arrested by Tehran last year during what Tehran described as an intelligence operation after spending years in exile in France.
Ruhollah Zam, whose Amad News channel has more than a million followers on a social network, was executed after being accused of inciting violence in anti-government protests in 2017.
They are not the only ones who carried out the death penalty inside Iran, as the “IranHrdc” Human Rights Center recorded around 123 executions in Iran, documented by name and time of execution.
Iranian affairs expert Ahmed Farouk believes that Iran uses the death penalty in the judiciary, when pressure from abroad increases.
In an interview with Al-Hurra, Farouk said: “As pressure increases from outside the country, the Iranian regime begins to toughen up and issue dissuasive sanctions, which means that the maximum pressure campaign (US sanctions against Iran) was a consequence of increased executions. “
Farouk added: “There may not be an increase in death rates compared to last year, but this year’s executions were for various reasons, like the Baloch politician, and we are not in my thoughts, due to the protests in November. , and the same in the case of Ruhollah Zam. “
The political analyst noted that “Iran views the executions as a message abroad and within, especially in the case of Ruhollah Zam, and during the past year, people who, according to Iran, were affiliated with armed movements against the regime have been arrested. , like Habib Asyoud and Jamshid Sharmahat “.
It should be noted that, in 1988, Iran witnessed mass executions following a fatwa issued by the then guide, Ruhollah Khomeini, in which thousands of opposition political prisoners, including children under the age of 16, were killed.
