World Day Against the Death Penalty/This year, 31 Kurdish citizens have been executed in Iran

World Day Against the Death Penalty (10 October) is a day to advocate for the abolition of the death penalty and to raise awareness of the conditions and the circumstances which affect prisoners with death sentences. The day was first organised by the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty in 2003. It has since taken place annually on 10 October. The day is supported by numerous NGOs and world governments, including Amnesty International, the European Union and the United Nations. On 26 September 2007, the Council of Europe also declared 10 October to be the European Day Against the Death Penalty. The World Federation of Human Rights Societies has issued a detailed report on the widespread use of the death penalty in Iran, saying "no one is safe." The report, published on the occasion of October 10, World Day Against the Death Penalty, states that Iran has the highest number of executions in recent decades, after China, and the highest number of child executions. According to the World Federation of Human Rights Societies, in the last decade alone, 67 people in Iran have ended up with the death penalty, which was considered a child crime at the time. The death penalty in Iran is one of the main issues being criticized by government critics. Recently, the issuance of death sentences to several protesters in November 1998, as well as the execution of Navid Afkari in ambiguous cases, led to a widespread wave of opposition to the death penalty. The Paris-based International Federation of Human Rights Societies, an international body of dozens of human rights organizations, has called on the Iranian government to formally suspend all executions until the death penalty is abolished altogether, and to reduce the sentences of convicts. To take. The report called on the international community, the United Nations and the European Union to support civil society efforts against the death penalty in Iran. The International Federation of Human Rights Societies says that in many cases, Iranian judiciary officials do not even abide by their own laws, including the rights of those sentenced to death to know the time of execution and the presence of a lawyer. It has also criticized "brutal methods of execution" and public executions. This summer, after a long period of news, a political prisoner was executed by firing squad. Hedayat Abdollahpour is one of several political prisoners executed in Kurdish cities in Iran in recent months. The International Federation of Human Rights Societies has criticized the Iranian government for the death penalty for political and ideological crimes, sexual crimes, theft, economic crimes, and even drinking alcohol. It called on the Iranian government to consider the abolition of the death penalty as a mere punishment for crimes that are considered "very serious crimes" in international law. On the other hand, according to the Kurdistan Human Rights Association, 31 Kurdish citizens have been executed in Iran since the beginning of this year. According to statistics, about 400 people have been executed in Iranian Kurdistan in the last 5 years.