Rights groups: Iran executed 975 people in 'horrifying' 2024 escalation

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Bloodthirsty Iran Unleashes Execution Spree, Killing Nearly 1,000 Of Its Own In 2024

The Iranian regime’s insatiable thirst for death claimed at least 975 lives in 2024, as the Islamic Republic escalated its use of state-sanctioned murder to maintain its iron grip on power, according to a damning new report by human rights organizations. The figures, released Thursday by Iran Human Rights (IHR) and Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM), expose a horrific rise in executions, with Iran butchering more of its own people than in…

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Iran executed at least 975 people in 2024, a 17% increase from 2023: Report

Iran executed nearly a thousand people last year in what is described as a "horrifying escalation" of its use of capital punishment, according to a pair of human rights watchdogs. The joint report from Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and France's Together Against the Death Penalty shows an increase from numbers released last month by the U.N. human rights watchdog. The U.N.'s report revealed 901 people were executed by Iran last year, while…

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Iran Executed At Least 975 People In 2024, Marking A 17% Rise From The Previous Year

by Emmitt Barry, Worthy News Correspondent (Worthy News) – Iran carried out nearly 1,000 executions last year, marking what human rights organizations have condemned as a “horrifying escalation” in the use of capital punishment, according to a U.N. human rights watchdog group. Iran executed 975 people in 2024, a 17% increase from the 834 executions recorded in 2023, according to a report issued by the U.N. Human Rights Office. Among the 975 exec…

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Iran’s authorities executed in 2024 to 975 people, two non-governmental organisations, who have spoken of a “horrible increase” in the use of capital punishment, with an increase of 17 percent over 2023 and the highest number of documented executions in more than two decades, according to which Iran Human Rights (IHR), based in Norway, and Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM), based in France, have reported that only 95 executions, less tha…

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Iran Executed 975 People In 'Horrifying' 2024 Escalation: Rights Groups

Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a "horrifying escalation" of its use of capital punishment, two human rights groups said on Thursday. Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and French group Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM) said the figure was the highest since IHR began recording executions in Iran in 2008. The figure "reveals a horrifying escalation in the use of the death penalty by the Islamic republic in 2024," they sai…

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Iran executed 975 people in 'horrifying' 2024 escalation: groups

Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a "horrifying escalation" of its use of capital punishment, two human rights groups said on Thursday. Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and French group Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM) said the figure was the highest since IHR began recording executions in Iran in 2008. The figure "reveals a horrifying escalation in the use of the death penalty by the Islamic republic in 2024," they sai…