PARIS: Iran has executed at least 1,000 people so far in 2025, the highest such figure in some three decades, an NGO said on Tuesday, denouncing the “mass killing campaign” in prisons as a crime against humanity.
At least 64 people were hanged in the past week alone, an average of more than nine per day, said the Norway-based Iran Human Rights group, which counts and verifies executions in Iran daily.
With more than three months of 2025 still to go, the figure is already the highest since IHR began keeping records in 2008, topping the 975 executions recorded last year.
Responding to the report, the UN rights office in Geneva described the current number of executions in Iran as “staggering”.
