Human-rights media outlets reported the execution of at least twenty-four prisoners in Iranian prisons over a two-day period. These numbers show that in just two days, an average of at least twelve people per day—and one person every two hours—were executed across Iran.
These individuals were hanged on Saturday, December 6, and Sunday, December 7, in various prisons across Iran, including the cities of Arak, Aligudarz, Bandar Abbas, Borujerd, Saveh, Semnan, Sanandaj, Qom, Qazvin, Karaj, Kermanshah, Khorramabad, Dezful, Rasht, Gorgan, Hamedan, and Neyshabur.
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The news of these executions was published by several human-rights sources, including HRANA, the Iran Human Rights Society, and Hirkani. Inside Iran, state-run news agencies reported only one of the cases.
Twenty-three of the prisoners were executed on charges of “murder” or “possession or transport of narcotics,” and one person was executed in connection with an economic case involving the company “Rezaayat Khodro Taravat Novin.”
Given that many executions in Iranian prisons are carried out secretly and reported to human-rights organizations with delay, the current figures represent only a minimum estimate of the reality.
Under these circumstances, and due to systemic secrecy within the judicial apparatus of Iran’s regime, many execution cases are typically identified and recorded only days, weeks, or even months later.
Earlier, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) had announced that Iran’s regime hanged at least 355 people in prisons across the country during November, two of which were carried out in public.
NCRI added: “The number of executions this month was more than double the 155 in 2024, three times the 115 in 2023, six times the 57 in 2022, and eleven times the 30 in 2021.”
The human-rights website Iran Human Rights Monitor also reported that in 2025, Iran’s regime executed 1,176 people.
The rise in the issuance, confirmation, and implementation of execution sentences in recent months has triggered widespread protests both inside and outside the country.
On November 21, the United Kingdom’s Foreign Office issued a statement calling for the immediate halt of executions in Iran.
On November 19, the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning human-rights violations in Iran, with seventy-nine votes in favor and twenty-eight against. This year’s text placed greater emphasis on executions, women’s rights, the suppression of protesters, and cross-border repression.
