The variety of executions in Iran in 2025 is estimated to have greater than doubled in comparison with the quantity that happened throughout the nation in 2024.
Norwegian-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) group informed the BBC it had verified at the least 1,500 executions up till the beginning of December, including that many extra have taken place since.
Final 12 months, IHR was in a position to confirm 975 executions – though the precise quantity is rarely fully clear as Iranian authorities don’t give official figures.
Nevertheless, the evaluation exhibits one other important annual rise, and the figures chime with these offered by different monitoring teams.
Iran’s authorities has beforehand defended its use of the demise penalty, saying it’s restricted to solely “essentially the most extreme crimes”.
Execution figures had been already on the rise earlier than mass demonstrations broke out throughout the nation in 2022 following the demise in custody of Mahsa Amini.
The 22-year-old Kurdish lady was detained by morality police in Tehran for allegedly carrying her hijab “improperly”.
That protest motion represented the most important problem to the legitimacy of Iran’s theocratic management for a few years.
In response, authorities intensified the speed of executions from round 520 in 2022 to 832 the next 12 months – in accordance with the figures verified by IHR.
There have been some executions for protesters or alleged spies – however 99% of these executed have been for homicide or drug offences – a ratio which has remained fixed.
Activists have stated that the speed of executions in Iran will increase when the regime feels underneath menace and that the purpose is to forestall inner opposition by instilling concern within the inhabitants.
It appears to be borne out by the truth that since the 12-day war with Israel in June, in addition to main setbacks for Iran’s proxy forces throughout the area, there’s been one other massive surge.
