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Iran executed at least 1,000 this year in prison 'mass killing': NGO
Iran's executions in 2025 include 50% for drug offenses and 65 Afghan prisoners, amid accusations of using the death penalty for political repression and mass intimidation, says Iran Human Rights.
- Iran has executed at least 1,000 people in 2025, marking the highest number in three decades, according to the Iran Human Rights group.
- Most executions this year involve non-lethal offenses, with about 50 percent for drug-related cases.
- Human rights groups criticized Iran's use of the death penalty as a 'crime against humanity,' urging international action against these practices.
- The UN rights office described the current number of executions in Iran as 'staggering,' pointing to a mass killing campaign in prisons.
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Human rights defenders are breaking the alarm.
Iran executed at least 1,000 this year in prison ’mass killing’
Iran has executed at least 1,000 people so far in 2025, the highest such figure in some three decades, an NGO said Tuesday, denouncing the "mass killing campaign" in prisons as a crime against humanity. At least 64 people were hanged in the past week alone, an average of more than nine per day, said the Norway-based Iran Human Rights group, which counts and verifies executions in Iran daily. With more than three months of 2025 still to go, the f…
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This number is a summit recorded by the NGO Iran Human Rights, which counts the number of people executed by the Iranian regime every year.
·Montreal, Canada
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Leaning Left8Leaning Right8Center6Last UpdatedBias Distribution37% Left, 36% Right
Bias Distribution
- 37% of the sources lean Left, 36% of the sources lean Right
37% Left
L 37%
C 27%
R 36%
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