Iran: Staggering Number of Execution of Kurds

In 2015 over 750 people were executed by the Islamic Republic of Iran the vast majority of who are Kurdish. Kurds are the only ones who are currently being executed by the regime in Tehran because of their political opinions.

Ever since its emergence in 1979 the Islamic regime imposed discriminatory rules and laws against the Kurds in all social, political and economic fields. Iran’s Kurds experience discrimination in the enjoyment of their religious, economic and cultural rights. Parents are banned from registering their babies with certain Kurdish names, and religious minorities that are mainly or partially Kurdish are targeted by measures designed to stigmatize and isolate them.

Kurds are also discriminated against in their access to employment, adequate housing and political rights, and so suffer entrenched poverty, which has further marginalized them.Kurdish human rights defenders, community activists, and journalists often face arbitrary arrest and prosecution. Others – including some political activists – suffer torture, grossly unfair trials before Revolutionary Courts and, in some cases, the death penalty.

[fbvideo link=”https://www.facebook.com/ari.murad/videos/1267354889948360/” width=”500″ height=”400″ onlyvideo=”1″]