The Human Rights Activists in Iran website published a 37-page report saying 587 people were executed in Iran in 2012.
According to this report, 140,000 Iranian citizens had their rights violated directly by the government. 70% of reports on human rights violations in 2012 were gathered from human rights entities, media outlets independent or unassociated to the government.
Hrana announced there was a 3% margin of error in the sources this report was based on, and most of the executions were carried out in Tehran (16%).
59 people in 2012 were executed in public, totaling to 10% of all the executions in Iran.
Iran’s judiciary reported 54% of these executions and human rights entities provided reports on the remaining 46%. This is while judiciary officials claimed there were no secret executions in Iran’s prisons.
In comparison to 2011, Iran witnessed a 9% rise in executions.