Iran 2025
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
News on Iran in 2025
AUGUST 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Osat Akbari executed in Buin Zahra on August 21
- AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehsa Akbari executed in Shiraz on August 20
One day after her husband’s public execution
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farshad Hamegan and Hossein Mokhtari executed in Rasht on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Karimi and Taleb Rikani executed in Isfahan on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on August 20
Hossein Karimi, Reza Abbasi, Taleb Reikani, Morteza Sayvand.
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Mohammad Faroughi executed in Qorveh on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Naghi Shahi executed in Tabriz on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mokhtar Fazeli executed in Ahvaz on August 20
- AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Vali-Karam Jaberi executed in Qazvin on August 20
- AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Naghi Shahi and Yashar Lejehi executed in Tabriz on August 20
- AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Morteza Sayvand and Reza Abbasi executed in Isfahan on August 20
AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajad Molayi Hakani executed in public on August 19
IHR considers it particularly serious that children witness hangings.
AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Kerman on August 19
Hassan Kahrazehi, Abedin Kahrazehi, Milad Narouyi
- AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Behzad Zeinali executed in Arak on August 19
- AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hafiz Siahkhani executed in Iranshahr on August 19
AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Six men executed in Bandar Abbas on August 19
- AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Kerman on August 19
Safarali Keyfari, Milad Narouei + Unk.
- AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Arjangi executed in Ardabil on August 19
- AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saeed Joghatay executed in Sabzevar on August 19
AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - State TV Airs Forced Confessions of Christian Converts
- AUGUST 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Davood Kashani executed in Hamedan on August 18
- AUGUST 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Omidi-Moghadam and Iman Jouzi executed in Khorramabad on August 18
AUGUST 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behrouz Sedghi and Arash Mahjour executed in Isfahan on August 18
AUGUST 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saman Ghasemi executed in Amol on August 18
- AUGUST 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Beqlani executed in Ahvaz on August 17
AUGUST 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Younesi and Mehdi Najafi executed in Shiraz on August 17
- AUGUST 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Salar Rahimzadeh executed in Shiraz on August 17
- AUGUST 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Soheili and Nader Sepahdar executed in Mashhad on August 17
AUGUST 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The death sentence of Sharifeh Mohammadi, a political prisoner, has been upheld
By the Supreme Court
- AUGUST 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jafar Sadeghi executed in Rasht on August 16