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


Al-Sharaa calls for a commission of inquiry into mass executions of Alawites – report

Syria’s new government launches inquiry after mass executions spark global condemnation.

 People protest against the killing of civilians and security forces linked to Syria's new rulers, following clashes between the forces loyal to the new administration and fighters from Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, at Marjeh Square, in Damascus, Syria, March 9, 2025.

Iran moves political prisoner to solitary in preparation for execution over Israel ties, NGO says

Iranian authorities received a confession by torturing Mohammad-Amin Mahdavi Shayesteh, and he was quickly convicted, the NGO said. 

 A view of the entrance of Evin prison in Tehran, Iran October 17, 2022.

The silenced suffering of Iran’s youth and the deafening silence of the West - opinion

In the end, it is not only Iran’s youth who suffer under this hypocrisy; it is the integrity of human rights itself.

 IRAN FANS wear t-shirts with the message: ‘Woman Life Freedom’ outside a stadium before a 2022 World Cup match between Iran and Wales in Qatar. Young Iranians have dared to imagine a future free from the stranglehold of a regime that views every breath of liberty as a mortal threat, says the writer

Iran executes 29 prisoners in one day, rights groups report

Human rights organizations frequently criticize Iran for its high rate of executions, second only to China.

PROTESTERS DEMONSTRATE in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate in August 2016 against the execution by Iran of up to 20 Kurds suspected of attacking security forces.

Iran executes over 300 individuals in first seven months of 2024, 49 in July alone

Out of the total executions in Iran so far this year, over 20% were of ethnic minorities.

 A protester dons face paint and carries a mock noose to denounce recent executions by the Iranian regime during a march commemorating the 45th anniversary of the revolution in Washington, DC, on February 10, 2024.

'If you want to execute Mohammadi, dig two graves': Iranian labor activist sentenced to death

Sharifeh Mohammadi, who has been imprisoned since December 2023, has not been granted visits and phone calls by family members.

 Sharifeh Mohammadi, from a post to Facebook.

Sweden frees convicted former Iranian official Hamid Noury in prisoner exchange deal

In 2022, Noury was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Stockholm court for his role in the mass executions of Iranian regime opponents in 1988.

 Supporters of People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran protest outside Stockholm District Court on the first day of the trial of Hamid Noury, 60, accused of involvement in the massacre of political prisoners in Iran in 1988, Stockholm, Sweden August 10, 2021.

Iran supreme court rejects retrial for Jew facing imminent execution

US Jews and others raised $1.5 million to save Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani, but without success.

 Iranians chant during an anti-Israel rally in Tehran, Iran, April 19, 2024.

Ebrahim Raisi signaled Iranian revolution's demise

The deceased Iranian president epitomized the Khomeini Revolution’s successes, adventures, and decay.

 Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi gestures during a meeting with Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro at the Miraflores Palace, in Caracas, Venezuela June 12, 2023.

IRGC, Khamenei representative pushing for execution of Iranian Jew - report

Several Jews have been executed by the Islamic regime since the revolution in 1979.

 Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reviews armed forces during a graduation ceremony, in Tehran