Executions surge in Iran

The number of executions in Iran increased by 88% compared to last year, Report informs, citing the Annual Analytical and Statistical Report on Human Rights in Iran for the year 2022.

This document on human rights violations in Iran is the result of the collection, analyzation, and documentation of 13,342 reports concerning human rights gathered from 267 news sources in 2022.

The Department of Statistics and Publication of Human Rights Activists in Iran registered 457 reports related to the death penalty in 2022. This included 92 death sentences, including the conviction of 6 people to public execution and 565 execution sentences were carried out, 2 of which have been carried out in public. Based on the announced identifications of some of the executed individuals, 501 were male and 11 were female. In addition, 5 juvenile offenders were executed in 2022, meaning they were under the age of 18 at the time they committed the crime.

In 2022, at least 3,046 protests were held across 31 provinces.

In 2022, security forces arrested 23,977 individuals due to political or civil rights-related activities.