Execution

Amnesty International issues rare condemnation of Hamas, demands end to extrajudicial executions

The organization, which has frequently criticized Israel’s actions in Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank, demanded that Hamas end impunity for extrajudicial killings and reprisal attacks.

Gunmen stand guard at the funeral of Marwan Issa, a senior Hamas deputy military commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike during the conflict between Israel and Hamas, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, February 7, 2025.
IRANIAN ACTIVISTS display the Lion and Sun flag alongside Israel’s flag outside Georgia’s parliament at one of the rallies that interviewee Behnam Vali Heydarian says he was pressured to stop organizing.

Facing exile and persecution, an Iranian dissident crossed from devout Muslim to student of Judaism

An Iranian policeman holds up a package of seized Afghan-made drugs during a media tour in the southeastern city of Zahedan, on July 19, 2011; illustrative

UN helped Iran expand anti-drug crackdown despite execution concerns

 People gather during protest on January 8, 2026 in Tehran, Iran.

Iran executes man convicted of running over police during January protests


Gov’t allocates over NIS 1 billion to prosecute October 7 terrorists in military tribunals

Lawmakers who sponsored the bill likened it to the Eichmann trials in 1961, which broadcast live and recorded testimonies of Holocaust survivors throughout the world before the execution.

Terrorists from Hamas's Nukhba Force being held at Ofer Prison near Jerusalem, August 28, 2024.

Iran increases checkpoints in Kurdish region as minority group disproportionally executed

Recent events, including the January demonstrations that were violently suppressed by the regime, have also seen Iran’s Kurdish community disproportionately affected by state violence.

A view shows the outskirts of an Iranian Kurdish military facility north of Erbil, Iraq, on March 11, 2026, after it was struck by an Iranian drone.

Iran executes two men over January mosque arson amid trial outcry

Mehrdad Mohammadinia and Ashkan Maleki had allegedly been part of a group of demonstrators who targeted the Jafari Mosque in Tehran's Gisha neighborhood.

Demonstrators hold signs as they gather near the Francis Scott Key Bridge during rally in support of the Iranian people and to condemn the execution of political prisoners in Iran, in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2026.

Iran's regime continues irregular death sentencing as it hunts for 'Israeli collaborators'

The new execution orders follow the state killing of Gholamreza Khani Shekarab, who was hanged on Tuesday after being accused of being “one of Mossad’s operational ringleaders abroad."

Members of the Iranian police attend a pro-government rally in Tehran, Iran, January 12, 2026.

Iran police chief claims regime arrested more than 6,500 suspected ‘elements linked to the enemy’

Radan also claimed that the regime’s security forces had killed “166 armed and professional thieves” who were taking advantage of wartime conditions and who resisted arrest.  

A police officer stands guard as funerals are held for members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and other military figures at Enghelab Square on March 11, 2026 in Tehran, Iran.

On this day: Adolf Eichmann captured in Argentina by Mossad

Eichmann was hanged at midnight on June 1, 1962; he was the only person in Israel’s history to be executed by the state.

 Adolf Eichmann, pictured in 1941/1942, in his SS uniform. Eichmann fled to Argentina in 1950 before being captured by the Mossad in 1960.

Iran executes alleged Mossad, CIA collaborator amid intelligence crackdown- report

Iran said it executed a 29-year-old aerospace engineer convicted of collaborating with Israel’s Mossad and the CIA by sharing classified information.

 The silhouette of a person, with Iran's flag in the background (illustrative).

Iran executes man convicted of killing security officer during 2022 protests - report

Mizan said the defendant confessed to assaulting the security officer. HRANA quoted an informed source as saying Abdollahzadeh was subject to torture to extract forced confessions.

Mehrab Abdollahzadehm.

'Be our voice': Brutalized Iranians speak of loved ones taken by the Islamic regime

IRAN AFFAIRS: Families of those executed or forcibly disappeared spoke with The Jerusalem Post about the Islamic regime’s brutal oppression of Iranians.

ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE. The Mama family, whose father Osman was detained by Iranian security forces in 2022 and has not been heard from since.

North Korea executions more than doubled after COVID, human rights group says

A plurality of death sentences before the pandemic were for murder, while during the pandemic, prosecutions seemingly centered around cultural crimes and information crimes.

 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during the expanded meeting of the first plenary meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), in Pyongyang, North Korea.