While Human Rights Watch recently released its annual report on the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran under the rule of the Iranian Velayet-e-Faqih (clerical regime) in 2019, systematic violations of human rights, including executions, continue in Iran.
Iran Human Rights Monitor has received a report that the Iranian Judiciary is systematically trying to get detained protesters, including many young people, addicted to drugs in order to make them break.
During the 1980s, the Iranian regime launched a vicious campaign of torture and executions against opposition groups, especially members and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), culminating in the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners.
A teenage Iranian protester attempted suicide on Saturday, in the Greater Tehran Penitentiary, after learning that he was to be sentenced to ten years in prison for taking part in the November 2019 uprising.
Three days after hiding the truth about the reason for the Ukrainian plane crash in Iran, finally under international pressure, the Iranian government was forced to speak about the real reason for the crash - that the plane was hit by two missiles.
A summary of repression in Iran in 2019 includes general statistics on executions, arrests, torture, and arbitrary killings:
