OAN Staff Katherine Mosack
3:46 PM – Friday, August 29, 2025
The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Office reported that Iranian authorities have executed at least 841 individuals since the beginning of this year.
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani, made a statement from Geneva on Friday, revealing information gathered by the Human Rights Office from the beginning of the year until Thursday this week.
In July this year, Iran executed 110 people, more than doubling the number of executions in July 2024, according to his statement.
Additionally, data from the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, published on August 18th, stated that: “The Islamic Republic of Iran has executed at least 800 people since the beginning of 2025. This amounts to an average of 100 executions per month, according to statistics recorded by the Statistics and Documentation Center of the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights. Among those executed in the past eight months were at least 30 political and ideological prisoners. During the same period, at least 22 women and one child offender… were put to death in Iranian prisons.”
Shamdasani continued, expressing that Iranian executions are not just punishments, but a show of political power and morbid national pride.
“The high number of executions indicates a systematic pattern of using death penalty as a tool of State intimidation, with disproportionate targeting of ethnic minorities and migrants,” Shamdasani asserted.
Currently, 11 individuals face execution in Iran, according to the UN.
Six of them are charged with “armed rebellion” due to their alleged membership in the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) group. The other five were allegedly involved in large-scale protests known as the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement — triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police for violating the mandatory hijab law.
The statement specifically highlighted workers’ rights activist Sharifeh Mohammadi, another victim of the death penalty in Iran, whose sentence was confirmed by the Supreme Court earlier this month.
Shamdasani affirmed that the UN has made multiple calls for Iran to end their use of capital punishment, which have so far been ignored.
“The death penalty is incompatible with the right to life and irreconcilable with human dignity. It creates an unacceptable risk of executing innocent people,” she stated. “It should never be imposed for conduct that is protected under international human rights law.”
“We call on the Government of Iran not to implement the death penalty against these and other individuals on death row.”
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