Iran's record execution rate casts shadow on death penalty reprieve for Kurdish activist Pakhshan Azizi - Activist stands ...

Iran executed at least 87 prisoners in January 2025, including eight Afghans, according to Hengaw. Only three of these Iran ...

This surge has highlighted systemic issues, including the use of capital punishment to enforce societal control and gender inequalities in the justice system Iran executed 31 women in 2024 ...

The Iran Human Rights Organization stated that the executions took place early Wednesday morning, January 22, in Ghezel Hesar Prison, located in the Alborz province. The organization identified two of ...

Iran carries out the second highest number of executions worldwide per year after China, according to human rights groups including Amnesty International. Capital punishment is applied in Iran for ...

Zimbabwe has just banned the death penalty. While it should remove an exemption clause, which might allow for capital punishment’s return were a state of emergency to ...

The regime must stop targeting Iran’s Kurdish minorities and using capital punishment to silence peaceful opposition,” Abraham Paley, US special envoy for Iran, said on X. Pakhshan was ...

Iran has given temporary reprieve from execution ... received last-minute relief from capital punishment over the weekend, but activists fighting her case are not resting yet.

A man was executed in Iran on Wednesday for the murder of a police officer in a central part of the country, the judiciary's official news agency reported.