21 January 2025 :

January 13, 2025 - IRAN. IHRS Year-End report. Iran Executed More than 1000 in 2024.
The Dictatorship’s Attempt to Silence Protests Through the Gallows
According to statistics and information recorded by the Iran Human Rights Society (IHRS), the year 2024 will go down in Iran’s history as one of the darkest years under the religious dictatorship. The figures on executions and repression have set new records.
In 2024, the number of executions exceeded 1,000. With 75% of all executions in the world, Iran ranks first globally. More than 1,000 executions in 86 prisons across 31 provinces—including 34 women, 7 juvenile offenders (under 18 at the time of the alleged crime), 119 Baluch citizens, 129 Kurdish citizens, 83 Afghan nationals, 4 public executions, and 12 political prisoners—depict the darkness of a regime founded on the spilling of its citizens’ blood.
As the regime’s crises intensified, executions reached a peak; 47% of these executions occurred in the final three months of the year. This coincided with the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, where Khamenei’s strategic depth, sustained by billions of dollars, also collapsed.
As shown in statistics, the highest number of executions over 50% was for drug offenses. This is controlled by the mafia under the IRGC’s command.
While the IRGC and other repressive agencies produce and distribute narcotics, hundreds of prisoners are executed on drug charges.
Close behind drug-related charges is murder. Murder reflects a grim social reality directly linked to the severe poverty gripping most of the population.
Currently, over 80% of people live below the poverty line, struggling day and night to survive. In a society where the breadwinner may sell an eye’s cornea or a kidney just to buy food, the conditions for murder inevitably emerge.
Of the 34 women executed in 2024, at least 18 faced murder charges, 9 were executed on drug charges, and 6 remain unknown.
Nationalities of Those Executed. As in the past, in 2024 the most executions targeted ethnic minorities under oppression:
Kurds executed: 129;
Baluch executed: 121;
Afghan nationals executed: 83.
Executions by Province
Alborz 207;
Fars 97;
Isfahan 72;
East Azerbaijan 64;
Razavi Khorasan 59;
Western Azerbaijan 48;
Kerman 43;
Qazvin 42;
South Khorasan 34;
Gilan 33;
Sistan and Baluchestan 32;
Lorestan 32;
Hamedan 31;
Yazd 29;
Zanjan 26;
Qom 24;
Golestan 22;
Ilam 15;
Ardabil 13;
Kermanshah 13;
Markazi 12;
Hormozgan 12;
Khuzestan 10;
Mazandaran 9;
North Khorasan 5;
Semnan 5;
Kurdistan 4;
Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad 3;
Tehran 2;
Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari 2;
Bushehr 1.
Prisons With Executions in 2024
At least 86 prisons across 31 provinces witnessed executions in 2024. Ghezel Hesar Prison, with at least 165 executions (roughly 17% of the total), had the highest number. Other prisons with large numbers included:
Shiraz: 97 (about 10%)
Isfahan: 65
Tabriz: 59
(each accounting for about 6% of the total).
Karaj Central Prison: 44
Qazvin: 40
Mashhad: 33.

https://en.iranhrs.org/2024-a-bloodstained-year-for-human-rights-in-iran/