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Middle East > Iran > Crime

IRANIAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Executions 66 executions [4th of 33]
    (per capita) 0.970331 executions per 1 million [12th of 33]
Illicit drugs
despite substantial interdiction efforts, Iran remains a key transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin to Europe; highest percentage of the population in the world using opiates; lacks anti-money-laundering laws
Prisoners 163,526 prisoners [10th of 164]
Prisoners > Female 3.5% [84th of 134]
Prisoners > Per capita 226 per 100,000 people [33rd of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees 24.8% [89th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 243.1% [7th of 128]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Iran is a source, transit, and destination country for women and girls trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation and involuntary servitude; according to foreign observers, women and girls are trafficked to Pakistan, Turkey, the Persian Gulf, and Europe for sexual exploitation, while boys from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan are trafficked through Iran en route to Persian Gulf states where they are ultimately forced to work as camel jockeys, beggars, or laborers; Afghan women and girls are trafficked to the country for forced marriages and sexual exploitation; women and children are also trafficked internally for the purposes of forced marriage, sexual exploitation, and involuntary servitude
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 3 - Iran is downgraded to Tier 3 after persistent, credible reports of Iranian authorities punishing victims of trafficking with beatings, imprisonment, and execution
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 14 [59th of 116]
    (per $ GDP) 0 per $1 million [89th of 115]
    (per capita) 0.205828 per 1 million people [88th of 116]

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SOURCES: Amnesty International; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; Mr Lennox-Boyd's reports to the House of Commons; recorded in the House of Commons Hansard for 03-11-92

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Jomhuri-ye Eslami-ye Iran, iran (islamic rep. of), iran (islamic republic of), Iran, Islamic Rep. of, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Islamic Rep. of Iran

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