Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); November 7, 2025: At least 217 people were executed in October 2025, including six women, 11 Afghan nationals, 11 Arabs, eight Baluch and 8 Kurdish minorities. This figure is double that of the 84 executions recorded in September 2024. This is the highest monthly execution figure recorded in at least 25 years. In the first ten months of 2025, at least 1,271 people have been executed.
Iran Human Rights calls on the international community to use its diplomatic leverage to stop the Islamic Republic’s execution machine and to warn officials that their commission of crimes against humanity will be seriously investigated.
Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, IHRNGO’s director, said: “We are witnessing the mass and systematic killing of people whom the Islamic Republic’s judiciary has sentenced to death without fair trials. The international community and governments that have diplomatic relations with Iran are obliged to make halting the Islamic Republic’s execution machinery an immediate priority.”
October 2025 Executions at a Glance:
At least 1,271 executions were recorded in the first ten months of 2025, almost double compared to the same period in 2024 when 685 executions were recorded. Of the 1,271 executions, 621 were on death row for drug-related offences, 568 were sentenced to qisas for murder, 53 for the security-related charges of efsad-fil-arz (corruption on earth), baghy and moharebeh, and 29 for rape charges. Of those, only 94 or 7% were announced by official sources.
36 women, 69 Afghan nationals, an Iraqi national and a man only referred to as a “foreign national” were amongst those executed.
On 30 October, IHRNGO welcomed a statement by the UN Fact-finding Mission (FFMI), which, quoting one of the its experts, stated: “If executions form part of a widespread and systemic attack against a civilian population, as a matter of policy, then those responsible – including the judges who impose capital punishment – may be held accountable for crimes against humanity.”