The Islamic Republic of Iran executed more than 1,000 prisoners in 86 prisons across the country in 2024, according to a report by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). The report said the death toll is “an unprecedented figure in the last three decades,” and represents a 16% increase from the 864 executions carried out in 2023.
Most of the executions by the government took place in the second half of the year. About 70% occurred after the July election of President Massoud Pezeshkian. About 47% occurred in the fourth quarter of 2024, the NCRI said, when the regime faced “serious defeats in the region and growing economic and social crises.”
NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi said that the series of executions “represented a desperate attempt to prevent an uprising by an angry public, who would accept nothing less than the complete overthrow of the regime. However, these medieval Crimes double. Iran’s youth determined to overthrow religious dictatorship.”
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Public executions in Iran are often witnessed by children. (Courtesy: Iran Human Rights)
According to Rajvi, “With any interaction or transaction [the regime] There should be a condition for ending execution and torture. Its leaders must be brought to justice for 45 years of crimes against humanity and genocide.”
Fox News Digital contacted the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations for comment regarding the regime’s record level of executions. The mission declined to comment.
Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital that “the more the regime looks weak abroad, the more it is doubling down on efforts to prevent contagion on the home front. It is doing This led to an increase in the number of executions, including political prisoners, nonviolent criminals, and even hostages.” Taleblu said that in October there were “a record number of killings by the clerical regime.”
Iranian President Masoud Pezheshkian walks on the sidelines of the 79th United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City on September 24, 2024. (Reuters/Caitlin Ochs)
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The prisoners executed in Iran this year include 34 women and seven inmates whose crimes were committed when they were teenagers. According to the report of Amu TV, these also include 70 Afghan citizens. This represents an increase of almost 300% compared to the previous year.
NCRI reports that 119 of the executed prisoners were from the Baluchi minority. An August 2024 report by the UN-mandated Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran stated that the Baluchis constitute 2% of the Iranian population. The fact-finding mission also found that ethnic and religious minorities “have been disproportionately affected by the government’s response to the protests that began in September 2022,” including the Iranian detention of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman arrested for not wearing a hijab. Death occurred.
Iranians protest the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after being detained by morality police in Tehran, Iran last month Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. (AP/Middle East Images, File)
Among those killed by the Iranian regime in 2024 was journalist Jamshid Sharmahad, 69, a German citizen and resident of the United States for 20 years, who was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020. Sharmahad was hanged in October after being charged. Corruption on Earth” was called a “grossly unfair” trial.
In an open letter shared by the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, 25-year-old political prisoner Saeed Masouri wrote that “on average we see an execution every four hours.” During Christmas, Mussouri said that “about 25 innocent people were executed, which is equivalent to an execution approximately every 2.5 hours.”
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“I no longer know how much more I have to see and endure,” Mussoorie writes, explaining that from the moment he was sentenced, he “considers[ed] every meeting held [his] The sound of each ‘opening and closing’ of the last door is like a death knell.”
NCRI reported that on the first day of 2025, 12 prisoners were hanged in four Iranian prisons.
