The figure for 2025 is already the highest since the organization started keeping statistics in 2008, and there are still over three months left of the year. Last year, a total of 975 executions were registered.
The number reflects the cases that the organization has been able to confirm. The true number is likely even higher, notes IHR in a press release.
”In recent months, the Islamic Republic has launched a campaign of mass executions in Iran's prisons, the scope of which – in the absence of serious international reactions – increases every day”, says IHR's director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam in a statement.
According to activists, Iran is using the death penalty to a greater extent today than the country has done in the last 30 years.
