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The United Nations News | August 5, 2026 The UN rights chief expressed alarm on Wednesday over the sharp increase in executions and death sentences in Iran since the US-Israeli bombing campaign began in late February, warning that capital punishment is being used to intimidate the population and suppress dissent. “I am alarmed by the rise in executions and death sentences issued in Iran since March and that capital punishment continues to be used to instill fear among the population and suppress dissent,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said in a statement, urging Iranian authorities to urgently halt all…
30 October 2025 GENEVA – The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran warned of a serious deterioration of the human rights situation in Iran following Israeli airstrikes in June, succeeded by a domestic crackdown that has further constricted civic space, undermined due process, and eroded respect for the right to life. In the Mission’s first presentation to the UN General Assembly, Chair Sara Hossain expressed deep concern over the impact of Israeli airstrikes from 13 to 25 June 2025, which the Iranian Government said killed approximately 1,100 people, among whom were 276 civilians, including 38 children and 102 women, injured…
France 24 | December 23, 2025 Four Nobel laureates and several former heads of state are among the more than 400 prominent women who have signed a letter demanding the immediate release of Zahra Tabari, an Iranian engineer facing execution. The letter, organized by a London-based association, stated that Tabari faced “execution solely for holding a banner bearing the words ‘Woman, Resistance, Freedom’”. More than 400 prominent women, including four Nobel laureates and several former presidents and prime ministers, demanded Tuesday that Iran immediately release engineer and activist Zahra Tabari, fearing she faces imminent execution. The urgent public appeal charged…
Iran News Update | Mostafa Aslani | January 16, 2026 A televised statement by the Tehran IRGC chief exposes the lie of “terrorism” narratives and confirms systematic violence against unarmed Iranians during the nationwide uprising. A recent televised statement by Hassan Hassan-Zadeh, the commander of the IRGC’s Greater Tehran Corps, has torn through the regime’s carefully constructed propaganda. While attempting to justify the security forces’ actions during the January 2026 nationwide uprising, he declared that a “significant number of innocent and oppressed people” who were merely moving about the city for daily…
AMNNESTY INTERNATIONAL 31 March 2026 Responding to the arbitrary and secret executions of four dissidents in Iran since yesterday as at least seven other protesters and dissidents face the imminent risk of execution, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa Diana Eltahawy said: “Iranian authorities must immediately halt any plans to execute dissidents Vahid Bani Amerian and Abolhassan Montazer and protesters Mohammad Amin Biglari, Ali Fahim, Abolfazl Salehi Siavashani, Amirhossein Hatami, and Shahin Vahedparast Kolo, held in Ghezel Hesar prison, Alborz province. “It is unconscionable that even as the population is…
Paris (France) 24 Issued on: 20/04/2026 Paris (France) (AFP) – Iran on Monday executed two members of opposition group the People’s Mujahedin (MEK) who were convicted of spying for Israel, with the judiciary chief warning of “no leniency”. Mohammad Masoom Shahi, 38 and also known as Nima, and Hamed Validi, 45, were put to death at dawn in Karaj prison outside Tehran, the MEK’s political wing the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said in a statement. They were both members of the MEK, which is banned in Iran, it added. The hangings were the latest of detainees regarded as political…
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL | 8 July 2026 On the six-month anniversary of the January 2026 popular uprising in Iran when security forces carried out mass unlawful killings on an unprecedented scale to crush protests calling for dignity, freedom and an end to the Islamic Republic system, killing thousands of protesters and bystanders between 8-9 January 2026, Diana Eltahawy, Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International said: “Six months after Iran’s security forces unlawfully killed thousands of men, women and children across the country over a two-day period, the international community’s failure to take meaningful action to pursue international justice is indefensible. It helps perpetuate the cycle of deadly repression in which survivors and victims’ families are denied justice, and…
Guardian | 7 May 2026 Families pressured to stay silent, with at least 24 executions reportedly taking place since March amid internet blackout Iran is carrying out near-daily executions of prisoners in secrecy and, in some cases, refusing to hand the bodies of the dead to their families, according to rights groups and sources close to the relatives of the dead. Many families only learn of executions after they have been carried out, with some facing harassment and pressure not to speak publicly on the personal impact of the state killings, the sources say. In the latest reported surge, Iran…
New York Post | By Ronny Reyes | July 1, 2026 Iran has threatened to seize Tehran’s historic St. Peter Evangelical Church and evict the 20 families who call the temple their home, according to multiple reports. The move against the church, which has already had part of its property taken by the regime, appears to be in direct retaliation over the war with the US and Israel, said Sasan Tavassoli, an Iranian Presbyterian pastor in the US with direct contacts at St. Peter. “I will tell you the literal words they used, ‘We were concerned about America all these…
CBS NEWS | Emily Mae Czachor | May 18, 2026 The use of the death penalty skyrocketed last year, with documented executions reaching a worldwide high not seen since 1981, a new report found. A majority of the increase came from Iran, where the annual execution rate doubled, according to the report by human rights organization Amnesty International. At least 2,707 people were executed globally in 2025, the report said, although it acknowledged the overall count was likely much higher. Amnesty International said thousands of additional executions are believed to have taken place in China, but any concrete information about…