Executions in Iran

A prisoner named Amir Bayati who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder during a dispute, has been executed in Shiraz Central Prison.

Three Baluch men sentenced to death on drug-related charges have been secretly executed in Ghaen Prison over the past three months.

Eight months after an Iranian wrestler was unjustly executed in Shiraz, his brothers Vahid and Habib Afkari remain in prolonged solitary confinement in the same ...

A new report published on Monday by Iran Human Rights found the number of executions of drug-related offenders in Iran has tripled in 2021 compared ...

Iranian security forces have threatened to kill the brother of Navid Afkari, an Iranian wrestling champion whose execution for participating in anti-regime demonstrations caused global ...

Two prisoners in Arak Central Prison have been informed of being sentenced to death on charges of “insulting the prophet”. The two men were tried ...

Amnesty International says the use of the death penalty in 2020 was the lowest in at least a decade, though the "unprecedented challenges" of the ...

A prisoner sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, has been executed in Shiraz Central Prison.