Iran’s Mass Executions of Drug Offenders Are a Human Rights Emergency

The total number of death penalty executions in the world stands at 1,518 in 2024, 32% more than the previous year. It is the highest number of these deaths since the “unusually high” peak of 2025, according to Amnesty International’s annual report on the subject, published on 8 April. This figure is the “minimum of which is recorded”, since the human rights organization estimates executions in China at “thousands”, despite the Asian country’s k…

Iran’s Mass Executions of Drug Offenders Are a Human Rights Emergency

Over 100 Executed in Just Three Months for Drug Offences  Former Prisoner and Lawyers Reveal Blatantly Unlawful Judicial Proceedings April 16, 2025 — Hundreds of men and women are being unlawfully executed in Iran every year—secretly, relentlessly, and without fair trials—for alleged drug offenses in judicial proceedings that violate every single law and standard regarding capital punishment. These killings amount to a mass atrocity, the Center …

Three men – Hadi Rostami, Mehdi Shahivand and Mehdi Sharfian – are at risk of imminent finger amputation. On 14 April 2025, officials informed them that a guillotine had been ordered from Ourmia Central Prison, in the province of Western Azerbaijan, in order to apply the amputation sentences to which they were sentenced in the coming days. These men, who were sentenced in 2019 following an unfair trial marked by "confessions" tainted with tortur…

Winchester Exhibition Calls for Release of Political Prisoners and Condemns Recent Executions in Iran - Iran Freedom

Winchester, UK – April 14, 2025 Winchester, UK – April 14, 2025: The Academics in Exile Association, supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), organized a public bookstall and photo exhibition in Winchester to protest the recent wave of executions in Iran, including the execution of five political prisoners in Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad. The event also condemned the death sentences recently issued against PMOI-affili…

64 Weeks of Resistance: “No to Execution Tuesdays” Expands to 40 Prisons Amid Escalating State Executions - Iran News Update

April 15, 2025 – In a powerful display of unity and resistance, the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign enters its 64th week with renewed momentum. Two more prisons—Zahedan Women’s Ward and Azbaram Lahijan—have joined the movement, bringing the total number of participating facilities to 40. Today, prisoners across the country are staging a collective hunger strike to protest the Islamic Republic’s continued and escalating use of the death penal…

Iran’s Killing Machine Continues: 6 Executed in Latest Crackdown

In the latest wave of executions in Iran, at least six prisoners have been executed in the prisons of Qazvin, Kermanshah, and Zahedan. Some of these executions were carried out secretly without informing the families and were not reported by official media outlets. Executions in Zahedan Prison; Baloch Victims On the mornings of Saturday and Sunday, April 12 and 13, 2025, seven prisoners were executed in Zahedan Central Prison. Four of them, all …