Within the first three months of 2025, at the least 230 individuals, together with eight ladies, had been executed. File.
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The variety of executions carried out by Iran within the first three months this 12 months was greater than double the determine from the identical interval final 12 months, an NGO mentioned on Friday (April 4, 2025).
Norway-based group Iran Human Rights warned that the Islamic republic’s use of capital punishment was once more surging in a time of worldwide rigidity.
Within the first three months of 2025, at the least 230 individuals, together with eight ladies, had been executed, primarily on homicide and drugs-related expenses, it mentioned. In the identical interval of 2024, 110 executions had been recorded.
The NGO mentioned there have been 5 ladies among the many 59 individuals executed in March alone, together with a 24-year-old lady hanged on expenses of killing her fiance whom she had been compelled to marry.
IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam warned that Iran may exploit issues over a possible battle with america, which has not dominated out navy motion in opposition to its nuclear programme, to hold out extra executions.
“The chance of a big enhance in executions within the coming weeks is severe. The Iranian authorities could, as up to now, exploit public consideration on tensions between Iran and america to hold out extra executions, together with these of political prisoners,” he mentioned.
In response to IHR, Iran executed at the least 975 individuals final 12 months, the best determine because the NGO started recording executions in Iran in 2008.
Human rights teams, who say that Iran is the world’s most prolific executioner after China, accuse the authorities of utilizing the loss of life penalty to sow worry among the many public, significantly after nationwide protests broke out in 2022.
The numbers of girls executed has additionally been hovering with 31 hanged in 2024, additionally the best determine for the previous 17 years, in keeping with IHR. Many are convicted of killing abusive companions or husbands who they had been compelled to marry.
Within the newest such case, Mahnaz Kakayi, 24, arrested for the homicide of her fiance over 4 years and 7 months in the past, was hanged within the central metropolis of Isfahan on March 29, IHR mentioned.
“Her father insisted she marry a person of his selecting. Mahnaz did not need to marry him and was accused of killing him with a knife throughout an argument earlier than they married,” a supply, which was not named, advised the NGO.
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