Iran doubled more than the number of state performances it has carried out this year compared to data from the first half of 2024, the United Nations confirmed on Monday.
The UN Human Rights Office said that this year at least 612 people were executed alone this year, a figure more than double the 297 people who were killed in the same period last year.
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Portraits of the Iranian youth who killed the Iranian regime that he saw France on the Rally in Paris on 13 May 2025. (Siavosh Hosseini/Sopa Images/Lighttrocket via Getty Images)
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“It is alarming to see the reports that indicate that there are currently at least 48 people in the death cell – of whom 12 is supposed to be a dike with a disadvantage of the performance,” said UN people right chief Volker Türk Monday.
The news of the drastically increased number of state performances comes only one day after Tehrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani have murdered on Sunday, both of which were reportedly involved in the opposition movement that is known as the Mojahedin organization of Iran (Mek).
Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a dissident group based in Paris led by the MEK, took to x To condemn the murders, and the last words of Behrouz Ehsani quoted: “We will never – under all circumstances – show up for this bloodthirsty and criminal regime. We will never bend for humiliation.”
According to Amnesty International, “[both] were randomly performed in the midst of the horrible execution crisis of Iran. “
“Their executions emphasize the use by the authorities of the death penalty as an aid for repression in times of national crisis to crash and spread abnormal opinions,” the group added.
More than 40% of those executed this year were convicted of drug-related offenses, while the UN also discovered that many were not only tried behind closed doors, but vague charges such as “enmity against God” and “corruption on earth” are apparently used by the regime to be “silent dissident”.
“Information received by my office also indicates that legal proceedings in a number of cases, often behind closed doors, are consistently not met the right process and fair process guarantees,” Türk said in a statement.
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The number of State Sexecutions has been drastically escalated since President Massoud Pezeshkian took office in July 2024, with at least 975 people killed In 2024, the highest percentage since 2015.
The UN body has also warned that Iran wants to expand the use of the death penalty and assess a new espionage breaking that will redefine what the “collaboration with hostile states” regards.
Acts including online communication and collaboration with the foreign media apparently will question their “ideological coordination” and will punish by death.
The changes when Israel have called for a regime change in Tehran, and has repeatedly emphasized that the recent strikes were an attack on the government, not the Iranian people.
A woman resigns flowers for the victims of executions in Iran during the Rally in Paris, France on May 13, 2025. (Siavosh Hosseini/Sopa Images/Lighttrocket via Getty Images)
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“This bill broadens the scope of the death penalty for espionage, and I call on it to be withdrawn,” Türk said. “The death penalty is incompatible with the right to life and irreconcilable with human dignity.
“Instead of accelerating executions, I insist on Iran with the global movement that abolishes the death penalty, starting with a moratorium on all executions,” he added.
