Iran Executes Over 1,000 Prisoners in 2025, Condemned as ‘Mass Killing’ by NGO

Iran has executed at least 1,000 people so far in 2025, an NGO said on Tuesday, denouncing a ‘mass killing campaign’ in prisons aimed at spreading fear through society. At least 64 people were hanged in the past week alone, an average of more than nine per day, said the Norway-based Iran Human Rights group, which counts and verifies executions in Iran on a daily basis. With more than three months of 2025 still to go, the figure is already the highest since IHR began keeping records in 2008, topping the 975 executions recorded last year.