2023-12-31 2023 Annual Report, Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran HRM) ¶
Introduction ¶
Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran HRM) has made an effort in its annual report to provide an overview of the human rights situation in Iran. Given that the judiciary in Iran extensively employed executions as the most ruthless and inhumane form of punishment in 2023, a significant portion of the 2023 annual report focuses on executions. Another section of the report addresses the investigation into the suppression of protesters during the nationwide protests of 2022-2023.
The Iranian regime, in an attempt to suppress the nationwide protests, targeted the protesters and sought to silence any dissenting voices. They issued death sentences, along with severe and unjust verdicts, and employed brutal forms of torture to stifle the voice of every protester. The policy of “creating fear by using heavy punishments and issuing death sentences” has become the official policy of Iran’s judiciary, and in this regard, it has the full support of Ebrahim Raisi as the president, especially since Raisi has the experience of being a member of the Death Commission in the massacre of the summer of 1988.
