{"id":338744,"date":"2025-10-31T21:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=338744"},"modified":"2025-10-31T21:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:50:08","slug":"irans-regime-faces-international-condemnation-over-record-executions-and-escalating-repression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/irans-regime-faces-international-condemnation-over-record-executions-and-escalating-repression\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s Regime Faces International Condemnation Over Record Executions and Escalating Repression"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The United Nations Human Rights Council in session in Geneva<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In late October 2025, senior United Nations officials and the European Union issued urgent warnings over what they described as a sharp escalation in state repression and executions in Iran following the June 2025 attacks by Israel and the United States. The clerical regime, they said, has responded not by easing emergency measures but by deepening the use of capital punishment, surveillance, mass arrests, and transnational intimidation.<\/p>\n

UN Special Rapporteur: \u201cExecuted to Instill Fear, Not Justice\u201d<\/h2>\n

Mai Sato, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, presented her latest report to the UN<\/a> General Assembly on 31 October 2025. She warned that the end of the 12-day military escalation in June\u2014during which more than 1,100 civilians were killed and over 5,600 injured\u2014had brought no relief to Iranian society.<\/p>\n

\u201cExternal aggression has fueled deeper internal repression,\u201d Sato said. \u201cThe Iranian people\u2019s rights to life and liberty are under unprecedented threat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sato reported that over 1,000 executions have been<\/a> documented as of September 2025, the highest number recorded in years and a continued surge from 2024. She noted that only about 8% of executions are announced publicly, calling the practice \u201ca deliberate policy of fear and retribution.\u201d Many executions, she said, follow unfair trials, forced confessions, or vague national security charges such as \u201cacting against national security\u201d or \u201ccorruption on earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also reported mass deportations of Afghan nationals, expanded espionage laws restricting expression, and intensified crackdowns on civil society, journalists, women activists, and ethnic and religious minorities.<\/p>\n

Sato called on Iran to immediately halt executions, establish a moratorium, and permit international monitoring of prisons. \u201cThis is a pivotal moment for Iran to rebuild trust with its people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udce2 \u201cWe are witnessing widespread and sustained violations of the right to life.\u201d@UKUN_NewYork<\/a> says Iran\u2019s use of the death penalty has reached an extraordinary level, adding that the UK \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 stands against the new espionage law which seeks to broaden crimes punishable by death. pic.twitter.com\/YCong99wnV<\/a><\/p>\n

— M. Hanif Jazayeri (@HanifJazayeri) October 31, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n