Executions in Iran estimated to have doubled in 2025, report says

[ad_1] The variety of executions in Iran in 2025 is estimated to have greater than doubled in comparison with the quantity that came about 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 yr, 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.

Nonetheless, the evaluation reveals one other important annual rise, and the figures chime with these supplied by different monitoring teams.

Iran's authorities has beforehand defended its use of the loss of life 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 loss of life in custody of Mahsa Amini.

The 22-year-old Kurdish lady was detained by morality police in Tehran for allegedly sporting her hijab "improperly".

That protest motion represented the largest 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 yr - 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 mentioned that the speed of executions in Iran will increase when the regime feels below risk and that the intention is to forestall inner opposition by instilling worry within the inhabitants.

It appears to be borne out by the truth that for the reason that 12-day warfare with Israel in June, in addition to main setbacks for Iran's proxy forces throughout the area, there's been one other huge surge.