00:00Iranian authorities executed at least 1,639 people in 2025, two NGOs have said.
00:07In a joint annual report, Norway-based Iran Human Rights and Paris Pays Together Against the Death Penalty
00:13said there is now a risk of even more executions in the wake of the war against the United States
00:19and Israel.
00:20They urged the West to put the death penalty at the heart of any negotiations with Tehran.
00:26The number of executions represented an increase of 68% on the 975 people Iran put to death in 2024.
00:34The figure includes 48 women.
00:38If the Islamic Republic survives the current crisis, there is a serious risk that executions will be used even more
00:44extensively as a tool of oppression and repression, the report said.
00:48It added that the number of executions was by far the highest since IHR began tracking them in 2008.
00:55and was the most reported since 1989.
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