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Iran executed at least 1,500 people in 2025, a 35-year record: Rights group
Executions doubled to at least 1,500 in 2025, with over 700 for drug offenses amid increased political repression and regional conflicts, rights groups report.
- Iran Human Rights reported on January 01, 2026 that Iran executed at least 1,500 people in 2025, calling the toll "unprecedented in the last 35 years."
- After the 2022 protests sparked by Mahsa Amini, executions rose from around 520 to 832 and 975 by 2024, with another surge after the 12-day conflict with Israel.
- Rights monitors found most executions related to murder or drugs, with over 700 drug-related cases; 95 percent were unannounced by Iranian judicial authorities or Iran's reporting outlets, and AFP data show 1,681 men and 59 women executed.
- The United Nations urged Iran to halt the death penalty this year as HRANA recorded at least 2,606 protests and strikes and Iran's Supreme Court approved at least 56 death sentences.
- HRANA reported up to 1,922 executions in 2025, concentrated in Alborz province near Ghezel Hesar prison, and documented at least two juvenile executions alongside thousands of prisoner-rights violations.
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Over 1,500 Death Row Inmates Executed in Iran in 2025: 35-Year Record According to International Ngo
In a report, Iran Human Rights points out that this is the highest number of executions recorded since the late 1980s.
Iran Human Rights warns about the "unprecedented" increase in executions in Iran, used as an "instrument of terror" in the face of protests At least 1,500 death row prisoners were sentenced to death.
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der Standard DEAccording to the human rights organization Iran Human Rights (IHR), this has reached a peak in the past 35 years
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That is what Iran Human Rights said on Thursday, stressing that the number of executions has increased, in particular, since the protest movement that shook the country at the end of 2022.
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