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Islamic regime’s stream of human rights abuses, repression continues, experts say
Since the beginning of 2026 alone, at least 45 political prisoners and individuals on security-related charges were executed, according to the Center for Human Rights in Iran.
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In bid to relieve international pressure, Islamic regime frees 139 Iranians sentenced to death
Gov’t allocates over NIS 1 billion to prosecute October 7 terrorists in military tribunals
Iran says two Islamic State‑linked men executed for 2023 bus bombing
The Iranian judiciary said the attack killed a toddler and injured several others on a bus traveling from Tehran to Ilam, a province in the west that borders Iraq.
Iran disputes claim that Trump stopped over 800 executions, say none were scheduled - report
"I stopped 837 hangings on Thursday," Trump told the press on Friday morning. "And I said, 'if you hang those people, you're gonna be hit harder than you've ever been hit.'"
Executions in Iran soared in 2025 as regime used killings as 'tool of intimidation,' UN says
Human rights groups warned the regime stepped up executions in response to the 2022 Women, Life, Freedom protests, which erupted in response to the regime’s murder of Mahsa Amini.
Iran sends mixed signals on executions as judiciary warns ‘severest punishment’ for ‘mohareb’
Mohareb, meaning to wage war against God, involves the use of weapons to create fear and breach public security under the regime’s law.
Erfan Soltani, Iranian protester sentenced to death, confirmed alive by watchdog
Soltani was arrested during public protests in Karaj on January 8. He was the first to be sentenced to execution, an Iranian official told Reuters.
Canadian killed by Iranian regime amid violent crackdown on protests
Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand extended her “deepest condolences” and announced that Canadian consular officials are “in contact with the victim’s family in Canada.”
Trump promises consequences if Iran executes protester as UN condemns planned state murder
Protester Erfan Soltani is set to be put to death as soon as today, without trial, after regime forces arrested him in his home on January 8.
Iran set to execute 26-year-old protester on Wednesday without trial
While an estimated 2,000 people have been killed in anti-Islamic regime protests in recent weeks, Erfaneh Soltani is the first protester to be sentenced to execution.
Iran protests: Death toll hits 36, Islamic Republic executes man accused of spying for Israel
Entangled in a decades-long shadow war with Israel, Iran has executed many people it has accused of having links with Israel's intelligence service and facilitating its operations in the country.
Iran had highest number of executions in over a decade, human rights report says
Iran's treatment of prisoners in 2025 was also rife with abuses, according to the report, with 2,513 cases of prisoners being held in inappropriate conditions.
