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    Home - Middle East - Iran executed 975 people in ‘horrifying escalation’ in 2024
    Middle East Updated:February 20, 2025

    Iran executed 975 people in ‘horrifying escalation’ in 2024

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    Iran executed 975 people in ‘horrifying escalation’ in 2024

    Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a “horrifying escalation” of its use of capital punishment, two human rights groups said on Thursday.

    Iran carried out at least 975 executions last year in a “horrifying escalation” of capital punishment, according to Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and French group Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM). Both said the figure was the highest since IHR began recording executions in Iran in 2008.

    The figure “reveals a horrifying escalation in the use of the death penalty by the Islamic republic in 2024,” they said in a joint report, accusing Iran of using the death penalty as a “central tool of political oppression”.

    “These executions are part of the Islamic republic’s war against its own people to maintain its grip on power,” IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said.

    “Five people were executed on average every single day in the last three months of the year as the threat of war between Iran and Israel escalated.”

    Last year’s figure represented a 17 percent increase on the 834 executions recorded in 2023, the report said.

    Of the 975 people executed, four people were hanged in public and 31 were women, also the highest figure for the past 17 years.

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