In a new report, Amnesty International announced that officials of the Iranian regime executed more than one thousand people in less than the first nine months of 2025. This figure represents the highest annual number of executions in the past fifteen years.
This international organization called for the “immediate halt of all executions, the annulment of death sentences, and the establishment of an official moratorium aimed at the complete abolition of the death penalty,” urging other governments to pressure Tehran to stop the scheduled executions.
The report emphasized that since the nationwide uprising in 2022, the authorities of Iran’s regime have increasingly used executions as a tool to suppress dissent and protests.
The Iran Human Rights organization had earlier reported that in the first nine months of the current year, it was able to confirm one thousand executions in the country.
These statistics show that the number of executions has reached the highest level in the past thirty years and is on the verge of setting a new record.
Amnesty International further wrote in its report that this year, coinciding with Israeli military strikes against the Iranian regime and escalating regional tensions, executions under so-called “security charges” have intensified in Iran.
The organization warned that victims of this trend include political dissidents, ethnic minorities—particularly Afghans, Baluch, and Kurds—protesters, and prisoners convicted of drug-related crimes.
The report mentioned cases such as the execution of Babak Shahbazi in September of this year and accused the Revolutionary Courts of “holding unfair trials and issuing heavy sentences without respecting defendants’ rights.”
Amnesty International also noted that at least two Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Verisheh Moradi, are on the verge of execution, while the number of Afghans executed in Iran has risen alarmingly over the past two years.
Another part of the report highlighted the growing wave of drug-related executions, which violate international standards.
The Iran Human Rights organization also stated in its recent report that 50% of those executed in the first nine months of this year had been sentenced to death for “drug-related charges” and 43% for “premeditated murder.”
Amnesty International further pointed out that after the recent tensions between the Iranian regime and Israel, officials such as Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, the regime’s judiciary chief, have called for speeding up trials and carrying out executions for those accused of collaborating with “hostile states.” Meanwhile, the parliament has also passed a bill to expand the scope of the death penalty.
Amnesty International concluded by stressing that the death penalty in all circumstances is a blatant violation of the right to life and constitutes a cruel and inhuman punishment, urging the international community to take decisive action to stop this trend immediately.
In recent months, the rise in executions and the issuance and confirmation of death sentences for political prisoners in Iran have sparked a wave of protests inside and outside the country.
At present, in addition to ordinary prisoners who are hanged daily in Iran’s prisons, around 70 inmates across the country face the risk of confirmation or execution of their death sentences on political charges, while more than 100 others are at risk of receiving death sentences on similar charges.
