The United Nations and numerous international and European human rights organizations have condemned the surge in executions in Iran and voiced support for 1,500 prisoners on hunger strike in Ghezel Hesar Prison, Karaj.
In his latest report to the UN General Assembly, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed “deep concern” over the worsening human rights situation in Iran, citing a sharp rise in executions, widespread torture, persecution of minorities, and severe restrictions on civil and political freedoms. He urged the clerical dictatorship to “immediately halt executions, release political prisoners, and end torture and cruel punishments.”
According to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the number of executions carried out under the clerical dictatorship has reached over 2,000 in the fourteen and a half months since Masoud Pezeshkian assumed the presidency, including a series of mass hangings in mid-October 2025. Rights groups report that many death sentences were issued after brief trials based on forced confessions, often without notifying families or lawyers.
Inmates of Ward 2, Ghezel Hesar Prison, on hunger strike (Oct 14, 2025), call on @antonioguterres & the people of #Iran to help #StopExecutionsInIran.
They warn: “Today they kill us in prison — tomorrow it will reach the whole nation.” pic.twitter.com/JqomNMQIea— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) October 15, 2025
The hunger strike by 1,500 prisoners on death row in Ghezel Hesar Prison has prompted a wave of international solidarity. The Comité français pour un Iran démocratique (CFID) issued a public appeal titled “Non à l’exécution – Écoutons la voix des prisonniers d’Iran,” urging the United Nations, the European Union, and the Human Rights Council to intervene without delay, stressing that “the lives of 1,500 people are in real danger – every hour counts.”
Nouveaux Droits de l’Homme France, led by Pierre Bercis, likewise called on the UN and European institutions to act swiftly, stating: “We are collectively responsible for the fate of these human beings on death row.” In the French Parliament, Christine Arrighi, chair of the parliamentary committee for a democratic Iran, condemned the executions as “a political weapon of terror in the hands of a regime nearing its end.”
The Iranian Doctors and Pharmacists Association in Italy also voiced support for the striking prisoners, warning that the clerical dictatorship is “approaching its inevitable end while clinging to executions and torture,” and urged international bodies to prevent “another tragedy like the 1988 massacre.”
Together, these coordinated statements form a unified international response demanding immediate intervention to save the lives of the Ghezel Hesar prisoners and to halt Iran’s expanding execution campaign.