Iran’s Secret Hangings: Mass Unannounced Executions in Mashhad’s Vakilabad Prison

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Since January 2010, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has published dozens of reports of unannounced secret group executions at Vakilabad Prison in the northeast city of Mashhad. These executions were largely in violation of international human rights law and domestic procedures. Judicial authorities have continuously evaded questions about these executions and the names of those executed have never been officially announced.



This briefing paper features the first list of victims of secret executions in Vakilabad and other execution statistics, as well as witness testimony and official accounts of the executions. This briefing paper also details the major characteristics and illegality of these executions.

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Doesn't surprise me.

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Doesn't surprise me.

Why should it? The Shah's torture rooms, prisons and political prosecution look like a child's playground since the revolution which had adopted and exponentially worsen them. Apparently those are not issues that worry the far-becoming-mainstream-left narrative of Western 'imperialism' and self-determination as a way of liberation from foreign oppression as if it was qualitatively different from local oppression or 'better' (in any sense).