Situation The Islamic Republic centralized and drastically expanded the prison system of the previous regime. In one early period (1981-1985) more than 7,900 people were executed.source: Anonymous "Prison and Imprisonment", Mojahed, 174–256 (20 October 19838 August 1985). Somewhere between 3,000 and 30,000 political prisoners were executed between July and early September 1988 on orders of the Ayatollah Khomeini, causing a 2020 UN Special Rapporteurs to send a letter to the regime describing the killings as "crimes against humanity".
Situation The Islamic Republic centralized and drastically expanded the prison system of the previou:s regime. In one early period (1981-1985) more than 7,900 people were executed.source: Anonymous "Prison and Imprisonment", Mojahed, 174–256 (20 October 19838 August 1985). Somewhere between 3,000 and 30,000 political prisoners were executed between July and early S,eptember 1988 on orders of the Ayatollah Khomeini, causing a 2020 UN Special Rapporteurs to send a letter to the regime describing the killings as "crimes against humanity".