Overview
- The joint IHR/ECPM report, released Monday, counted at least 1,639 executions in 2025, averaging more than four per day and described as an absolute minimum under their two-source rule.
- Rights groups said Tuesday that a Tehran Revolutionary Court led by Judge Iman Afshari sentenced four people, including a woman, to death over the January protests.
- Nearly half of the recorded executions were for drug offenses, and monitors said Kurdish and Baloch minorities were targeted at disproportionate rates.
- At least 48 women were executed in 2025, with 21 convicted of killing husbands or fiancés, and public hangings rose to 11 even as most executions occurred inside prisons.
- Official outlets disclosed only 113 executions, while NGOs report hundreds of detained protesters now face capital charges in fast-track Revolutionary Court cases that rely on forced confessions and limited due process.