Between Monday, May 12 and Thursday, May 15, the Iranian regime executed at least 19 prisoners across various prisons in the country. Among those executed were two juvenile offenders and one woman.
With these executions, the number of people hanged since August 2024, during the presidency of Masoud Pezeshkian, has reached at least 1,164. This figure represents the highest number of recorded executions in the past three decades and indicates an unprecedented intensification of repression and state violence against Iranian citizens.
On Thursday, May 15, two inmates—Reza Dahmardeh (24) and Mohammad Ebrahim Esfandiari—were executed in the prisons of Zabol and Vakilabad in Mashhad.
On Wednesday, May 14, five prisoners, including 18-year-old Hadi Soleimani (who was under 18 at the time of the offense), were hanged in Ghezel Hesar, Urmia, and Adelabad prisons in Shiraz.
On Tuesday, May 13, Mohammadreza Sabzi (20), who committed the crime at the age of 16, along with Ebrahim Joghtai and another unidentified inmate, were executed in the prisons of Malayer, Gonabad, and Ghezel Hesar.
On Monday, May 12, nine more inmates were executed in the prisons of Isfahan, Arak, and Ghezel Hesar, including Mahmoud Hojatzadeh (35), Nemat Piri Zali, Mohammad Abdi, Jalil Azizi, and Kourosh Jalili.
The execution of juvenile offenders, women, and the high number of executions reflect the totalitarian nature of Iran’s regime, which relies on organized violence and physical elimination to maintain its grip on power.
Amnesty International Report
According to Amnesty International’s annual report published in May 2025, Iran accounted for more than 64% of all recorded executions worldwide in 2024, with at least 972 executions.
More than half of these executions were related to drug offenses, which is in violation of international law.
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Additionally, ethnic minorities such as the Baluch, who make up only 5% of Iran’s population, accounted for 20% of those executed.
Amnesty International condemned this trend as a gross violation of human rights and a manipulative use of the death penalty to suppress dissent.
While the Iranian regime attempts to instill fear through a surge in executions, the people of Iran, through their nationwide protests, continue to demonstrate that they reject this regime.
