800 prisoners executed in Iran in less than eight months

Hengaw– Monday, August 18, 2025

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—an individual convicted of a crime committed as a minor—were put to death in Iranian prisons.

Ethnic/national minorities were disproportionately affected. Of the total number executed, 116 were Kurdish, 107 Lor, 92 Baloch, and 82 Turk. In addition, at least 46 Afghan nationals were executed during this period.

Hengaw warns of the alarming escalation in executions across Iran and calls on democratic governments, international organizations, and civil society groups to take a firm stance against the systematic use of the death penalty by the Islamic Republic.