The Iranian regime hanged at least 104 people in prisons across the country between February 19 and March 20. According to these figures, nearly four executions took place per day on average last month.
On March 21, the human rights website HRANA released its latest monthly report on human rights violations in Iran, stating that at least 98 instances of the right to life violations (executions) were recorded between February 19 and March 20.
The news agency of the Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRA) added that, in addition to executing 104 prisoners, the Iranian regime issued death sentences for at least 22 individuals and confirmed the death sentences of at least five others during this period.
HRANA highlighted the public hanging of a prisoner in Esfarayen and the death sentence issued for Sasan Shadman, an 18-year-old juvenile offender from Yasuj who committed murder at the age of 16, as some of the most significant cases of the right to life violations in March.
The issuance and execution of death sentences for individuals under 18 violate international human rights standards, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which Iran is a signatory.
Iran is one of the few countries in the world that continues to issue and carry out death sentences for individuals under 18.
On March 19, HRANA published another report on human rights violations in Iran, stating that in the Iranian year 1403 (March 21, 2024 – March 20, 2025), the regime executed at least 1,050 people, including 29 women and five juvenile offenders.
According to this report, five of those executed were put to death in public.
Additionally, last year, 189 more individuals were sentenced to death, and the Supreme Court upheld the initial death sentences of 55 others.
The rise in the issuance, confirmation, and execution of death sentences in Iran in recent months has sparked widespread protests both domestically and internationally.
In the latest example of such reactions, Mai Sato, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, expressed concern in her first report about the Iranian regime’s use of executions as a tool for repressing the population.
On March 18, a group of families of political prisoners sentenced to death gathered in Sarab Park in the town of Sonqor, Kermanshah province, to protest the death sentences issued against their loved ones and other prisoners.
