Reporters Without Borders revealed further information on Iran’s decades-long human rights violation and millions of arrests, out of which 1.7 million are located in the country’s capital Tehran in the last four years.
The information is part of the leaked Iranian detailed files in 40 years of Islamic judicial proceedings released by Reporters Without Borders under the title “Forty years of state lies,” on February 7.
“More than 5,700 members of the Baha’i religious minority and at least 860 journalists and citizen-journalists,” are among the detainees according to the report.
At least 61,940 political activists have been held in prison since 1980, including teens. The report also confirmed that 4,000 political prisoners executed in 1988 under former Iranian leader, Ruhollah Khomeini.
Most of the prisoners in Iran, according to the files, includes journalists, artists, human right activists, women’s right activist, lawyers, Labour activists, religious minorities, academics, environmentalists and university students.
The right group’s secretary general Christophe Deloire said in a statement earlier that “the very existence of this file and its millions of entries show not only the scale of the Iranian regime’s mendacity for years when claiming that its jails were holding no political prisoners or journalists, but also the relentless machinations it used for 40 years to persecute men and women for their opinions or their reporting.”
