{"id":549,"date":"2013-07-09T17:44:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T17:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=549"},"modified":"2013-07-09T17:46:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T17:46:49","slug":"iran-amnesty-international-annual-report-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2013\/07\/iran-amnesty-international-annual-report-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Amnesty International Annual Report 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amnesty International Annual Report 2011
\n(January-December 2010)<\/p>\n

Iran
\n—
\nIslamic Republic of Iran
\nHead of state: Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran:
\nAyatollah Sayed \u2018Ali Khamenei
\nHead of government: President: Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
\nDeath penalty: retentionist
\nPopulation: 75.1 million
\nLife expectancy: 71.9 years
\nUnder-5 mortality (m\/f): 33\/35 per 1,000
\nAdult literacy: 82.3 per cent
\n—
\nThe authorities maintained severe restrictions on freedom of expression, association and assembly. Sweeping controls on domestic and international media aimed at reducing Iranians\u2019 contact with the outside world were imposed. Individuals and groups risked arrest, torture and imprisonment if perceived as co-operating with human rights and foreign-based Persian-language media organizations. Political dissidents, women\u2019s and minority rights\u2019 activists and other human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists and students were rounded up in mass and other arrests and hundreds were imprisoned. Torture and other ill-treatment of detainees were routine and committed with impunity. Women continued to face discrimination under the law and in practice. The authorities acknowledged 252 executions, but there were credible reports of more than 300 other executions. The true total could be even higher. At least one juvenile offender was executed. Sentences of death by stoning continued to be passed, but no stonings were known to have been carried out. Floggings and an increased number of amputations were carried out.<\/p>\n

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