Executions in Iran

Members of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign from 25 prisons in Iran, in a statement marking the campaign’s 42nd week, warned that the Iranian ...

On Tuesday, November 5, the “No Execution Tuesdays” campaign marked its 41st week with a powerful statement, reporting that since the start of the Persian ...

Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani, a twenty-year-old Iranian Jewish man, was executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran on Monday morning, Iran Human Rights and Israeli media ...

On Sunday, October 20, Ali Khamenei’s henchmen hanged a female prisoner named Nastaran Firoozi along with two other prisoners named Hassan Yousefi and Siamak Molaei ...

Iran executed 853 people in 2023 – the highest number on record since 2015, according to a new report in Amnesty International. The surge in ...

Robust international action is urgently needed to halt a horrifying surge in executions that saw Iran’s prisons transformed into sites of mass killings in 2023, ...

The Islamic Republic's authorities have executed another prisoner amid a shocking increase in the use of capital punishment. Ahmad Esmaeili, who was sentenced to death ...

A number of human rights advocacy groups have issued warnings about an apparent increase in the rate of politically motivated executions in Iran, and the ...

Iran recently executed four “saboteurs” linked to Israel’s Mossad intelligence service, the judiciary’s Mizan Online website says. “Four members of a sabotage team associated with ...