Iran 2001
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
News on Iran in 2001
- JANUARY 7, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Hassan Faylom, 39, was hanged in public outside Tehran's...
Hassan Faylom, 39, was hanged in public outside Tehran's Qasr prison, for killing his wife, Fatemeh, 24, and his 19-month old daughter, Melika, stabbing them 41 times "in order to satisfy his lust and that of his lover Mojgan"
- JANUARY 1, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Stoning is a pre-Islamic punishment
Stoning is a pre-Islamic punishment
- JANUARY 1, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Plotting to overthrow the Islamic regime is subjected...
Plotting to overthrow the Islamic regime is subjected to death sentence under Iran's Islamic penal code
- JANUARY 1, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Since 1991 Iran has executed around 5,000 drug pushers
Since 1991 Iran has executed around 5,000 drug pushers
- JANUARY 1, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Secretary of the Islamic Human Rights Committee Hasan...
Secretary of the Islamic Human Rights Committee Hasan Zia'ifar dismissed complaints lodged against a report , published on 17 October 2000, by the special representative of the UN Commission on Human Rights Maurice Copithorne to the effect that executions
- JANUARY 1, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Iranian law imposes the death penalty for possession...
Iranian law imposes the death penalty for possession of more than 30 grams of heroin or five kilos (11 pounds) of opium
- JANUARY 1, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Citizens continued to be tried and sentenced to death...
Citizens continued to be tried and sentenced to death in the absence of sufficient procedural safeguards
- JANUARY 1, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
At least 250 cases of whippings were carried out in...
At least 250 cases of whippings were carried out in Iran in 2001, according to Amnesty International