Iran's Executions Reach Highest Level In Decade

Half a year after the death of the entrepreneur Jamshid Sharmahd, family members said good-bye, and well-known politicians came to the funeral service.

Iran’s chemical warfare victims living proof of hollowness of West’s human rights claims: Official

A senior Iranian diplomat says the Islamic Republic’s chemical warfare victims stand as undeniable evidence of the hypocrisy behind Western human rights narratives.

Six months after the execution of the German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd, his daughter accepts the body in Berlin and makes serious accusations against the Federal Government.

Iran executes five prisoners

The Norway-based Iran Human Rights Organization (IHR) said in a statement that five men were hanged on Wednesday in the Vakilabad prison in the eastern city of Mashhad without their families being notified or given a chance to make a final visit. "These prisoners were subjected to torture and sentenced to death after an unfair trial," said IHR Director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, who described the five as "political prisoners." Four of the men belo…

Iran's Executions Reach Highest Level In Decade

This edition of the Farda Briefing looks at concerns about the rising number of executions in Iran and the deteriorating human rights situation.

Global Executions Hit Highest Level Since 2015

Global Executions Hit Highest Level Since 2015 Amnesty International recorded 1,518 executions under the death penalty worldwide in 2024, marking an increase of 32 percent since the year before when 1,153 people were put to death. This marks the highest execution level since 2015. Three countries - Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia - accounted for 91 percent of all known executions, together totalling 1,380. Egypt, Singapore and Yemen also recorded si…