UN experts condemn the “amazing scope” of deaths in Iran

United Nations human rights experts said they are horrific from a “dramatic escalation” in the number of executions in Iran, where more than 1,000 people were killed during the first nine months of 2025.

“The huge size of amazing Iranian executions and represents a serious violation of the right to life.” The fiftieth courses warned in a joint statement.

They pointed out that half of the well -known executions were due to drug -related crimes and that nine hanging daily on average have been documented in recent weeks.

There was no immediate comment from Iran. But the government previously defended its use of the death penalty, saying it is limited to “only the most severe crimes.”

It comes on the same day that Iran said that a man accused of spying for Israel was executed.

He was informed by the Judicial Mizan News Agency for Bimman Shui ASL and reported that he was an expert in the database that worked on “sensitive communication projects” and was a “reliable spy” from the Israeli Intelligence Agency, without providing any evidence.

He added that he was hanged on Monday after the Supreme Court refused to appeal against his conviction for “corruption on the ground.”

The balance of the ASL was not said, and his case was not reported by the Iranian media or human rights groups.

The eleventh man convicted of spying for Israel to execute Iran this year, with 10 executions that were carried out since a 12 -day war between the two countries in June.

Last week, Amnesty International and the Iranian -based Iranian Group said it has documented the executions of 1,000 people in Iran since January – already exceeded a total of 975 years.

According to Iran human rights50 % of those who were executed this year were accused of drug -related charges; 43 % of killing. 3 % of the charges related to security “armed rebellion against the state”, “corruption on the ground” and “enmity against God”; And 1 % of espionage.

Among them are 28 women and 58 Afghan citizens and what Amnesty described as a non -proportional number of people from minority societies.

Both groups said that the executions had routinely unfair trials that were tainted by allegations of torture and other treatment.

“Iran appears to run the executions on an industrial scale that defies all acceptable human rights protection standards,” the two human rights decision -making decisions in Iran, arbitrary executions, minority issues, torture and other harsh punishment, and human rights in Afghanistan on Monday.

They added that hanging 499 people due to drug -related crimes was “particularly concerned.”

Between 24 and 30 executions were recorded in the year 2018 to 2020, after the amendment of Iran’s law on illegal drug control. However, experts said that the number had risen since 2021, when a total of 503 was reported last year.

International law restricts the death penalty on “the most dangerous crimes”. “Drug crimes do not fulfill this threshold,” experts warned.

Iran reported on Sunday that more than 500 people were convicted of drug -related crimes who were currently in the Ghazar Haysar prison in Karaj alone, and that their rulings were all in the “implementation phase”.

The Iranian strong constitutional control Authority, as the guardian’s council is currently reviewing a spying bill that redefines “cooperation with hostile countries”, which is punishable by the death penalty, to include work such as online communication, cooperation with foreign media, and the so -called “ideological consensus”, according to the United Nations Human Rights Office.

United Nations experts said that the international community cannot “remain silent in the face of such regular violations” and that states “must take concrete diplomatic measures to put Iran’s pressure to stop this implementation.”