Amnesty International announced that more than 1,300 people have been executed in Iran during 2025 and called on the international community to take immediate action to “stop this horror.”
In a statement on Friday, October 24, the organization described the execution of over 1,300 people in the current year as “the highest figure recorded in decades.”
Amnesty International: More Than One Thousand People Executed in Iran in 2025
The human rights organization warned that thousands of others are at risk, as Iranian authorities continue to use the death penalty as a “weapon.”
On Thursday, October 23, Amnesty International had also reported that more than 1,000 executions had taken place in Iran since the beginning of 2025 and called for an immediate halt to the killings.
The organization stressed that executions in Iran are carried out “after unfair trials and with the aim of suppressing protests and minorities.”
Scores of people in Iran, including university student Ehsan Faridi, are at grave risk of execution after unfair trials & convictions on politically-motivated charges by Revolutionary Courts. Iran's authorities must halt all executions now! #نه_به_اعدام https://t.co/bBOgDIYUWW pic.twitter.com/Xmg6nslB49
— Amnesty Iran (@AmnestyIran) October 9, 2025
In response, political prisoners in various prisons have protested the wave of executions through sit-ins, issuing statements, and participating in “No to Execution” campaigns.
At Least 236 Prisoners Executed in October
On Thursday, October 23, the human rights website HRANA reported in its latest monthly update on human rights violations in Iran that the Iranian regime’s judiciary executed at least 236 people between September 23 and October 22 in prisons across the country.
These figures show that in the past month, an average of eight people were executed every day—equivalent to one execution every three hours.
According to HRANA, in addition to the executions carried out, at least 12 new death sentences and seven confirmations of execution verdicts were issued for prisoners in Iran.
Among those executed were two individuals, Ali Aghajeri and Mohammadreza Shiheki, who were under 18 years old at the time of arrest and alleged offense.
Currently, in addition to inmates convicted of general crimes who are executed daily in Iran’s prisons, about 70 prisoners nationwide with political charges are at risk of having their death sentences confirmed or carried out, while over 100 others face the possibility of receiving death sentences on similar charges.
In this context, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, in his latest report to the General Assembly published on Tuesday, October 21, expressed concern over the surge in executions, torture of detainees, suppression of minorities, and increasing restrictions on civil liberties.
According to the report, in the first half of 2025, at least 612 people were executed in Iran—a 119% increase compared to the same period last year.
Guterres expressed regret over the Iranian regime’s disregard for international recommendations to halt executions and to limit death-eligible crimes, describing public executions as “contrary to the prohibition of torture and inhuman treatment.”
