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Iran executed astatine slightest 1,500 radical past year, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights radical said connected Thursday (January 1, 2025), successful what it called an "unprecedented" hike successful the usage of superior punishment.
"It is precise alarming," the group's director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, said of the provisional toll. "It is unprecedented successful the past 35 years. As agelong arsenic Iran Human Rights has existed, we person ne'er had specified numbers."
In 2024, Iran executed astatine slightest 975 people, according to IHR and French radical Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM).
While IHR has yet to merchandise its last tally for 2025, it said it had verified astatine slightest 1,500 radical killed — of whom much than 700 were executed for drug-related offences.
Amiry-Moghaddam said the fig of executions had changeable up ever since protests that erupted successful September 2022, sparked by the decease successful custody of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian-Kurdish pistillate arrested for an alleged breach of the country's mandatory formal code.
Executions roseate from much than 500 successful 2022 to much than 800 successful 2023, past 975 successful 2024 and astatine slightest 1,500 past year, helium said. The caller tally comes respective days into caller protests successful Iran, driven by dissatisfaction astatine the country's economical stagnation.
Protesters and information forces clashed successful southwestern Iran connected Thursday, with demonstrators throwing stones successful the metropolis of Lordegan and constabulary utilizing teardrop state to interruption them up, the Fars quality bureau reported.
"Iranian authorities usage the decease punishment arsenic an instrumentality to make fear," Amiry-Moghaddam said. "The purpose of these executions has been to forestall caller protests. But arsenic you see, these days, they haven't succeeded."
The latest demonstrations person nevertheless not travel adjacent to the standard of the 2022 protests.
