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Iran executed 29 people on Wednesday, including 2 Afghan nationals at the Qazal Hasar prison in Karaj, and three others at another prison, the Iranian human rights group announced.
Most of these people are said to have been executed for crimes such as drugs, murder or rape.
Mahmoud Amiri Moghaddam, head of Iran’s Human Rights Organization, wrote on Channel X’s former Twitter account that hundreds of people will be killed by the Iranian regime in the coming months if the international community does not take immediate action.
He said Iran had begun mass executions of prisoners and that oppression of the country’s people had reached its peak.
Iran has executed more than 300 people in the first seven months of this year, including 27 Afghans in Iran.
An Afghan woman whose brother was sentenced to death in Iran, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue, told Radio Azadi that Afghans sentenced to death are unable to hire lawyers:
“They execute Afghans every day, they don’t say it officially, but we hear they tell each other that they executed so-and-so in this city. We worry every day that my brother will not be executed, even if he stays in prison forever and doesn’t get executed.”
More than three people have been executed in Iran in the past seven months, including 27 Afghans
About 8,000 Afghans are imprisoned in Iran, but it is unclear how many have been sentenced to death.
Meanwhile, cases of abuse of Afghan migrants by Iranian officials and some individuals in the country have increased dramatically in recent months.
The Iranian government has banned Afghans from traveling in many cities in the country and has even arrested Afghans for minor issues.
In the latest case, Iranian police in Tehran’s Damavand district reportedly placed their knee on the neck of a 15-year-old Afghan teenager, breaking his neck.
Afghan migrants living in Iran say police harassment has increased:
“The pressure on Afghan migrants has increased a lot, especially in Tehran. We can’t get out at all. Our situation is terrible. This situation is unacceptable.”
Iranian officials say all illegal Afghans without residence permits must leave the country by the end of this year, but have not commented on the beatings, torture and imprisonment of Afghan migrants.
Iranian Police Chief Ahmad Reza said on Monday that all plans were focused on deporting illegal immigrants.
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