Death Penalty in Iran: Sharp Increase in Executions

By Anissa Aguedal
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
June 10, 2022

https://worldcoalition.org/2022/06/10/annual-report-on-the-death-penalty-in-iran-2021/

European Parliament resolution of 17 February 2022 on the death penalty in Iran

The European Parliament

Texts adopted 

February 17, 2022

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2022-0050_EN.html

Input on "the imposition of the death penalty and its impact" to Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions

Iran Human Rights 
April 2022

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/2022-06/imposition-death-penalty-iran.pdf

Iran's troubling execution rates show no sign of slowing down in 2022

By Skylar Thompson
Atlantic Council 
February 15, 2022

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iransource/irans-troubling-execution-rates-show-no-sign-of-slowing-down-in-2022/

Women and the Death Penalty in Iran: a 12 Year Analysis

Iran Human Rights 
October 8, 2021

https://iranhr.net/en/articles/4910/

https://iranhr.net/media/files/Women_and_the_Death_Penalty_2021.pdf

Iran Human Rights Annual Reports on the Death Penalty 2008-2021

Iran Human Rights
Together Against the Death Penalty
April 2021

https://www.iranhr.net/en/articles/5170/

https://iranhr.net/media/files/Annual_Report_on_the_Death_Penalty_in_Iran_2021.pdf


Annual Report on the Death Penalty 2020

Iran Human Rights
Together Against the Death Penalty
December 2020

https://iranhr.net/en/reports/24/

https://iranhr.net/media/files/Rapport_iran_2021-gb-290321-BD.pdf


Annual Report on the Death Penalty 2019

Iran Human Rights
March 31, 2020

https://iranhr.net/en/reports/22/

https://iranhr.net/media/files/Rapport_iran-GB.pdf


Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran 2018

Iran Human Rights
February 26, 2019

https://iranhr.net/en/reports/21/

https://iranhr.net/media/files/Rapport_iran_2019-GB-BD.pdf


Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran 2017

Iran Human Rights
March 13, 2018

https://iranhr.net/en/reports/19/

https://iranhr.net/media/files/Rapport_iran_2018-gb-090318-MD2.pdf


Annual Report on the Death Penalty 2016

Iran Human Rights
April 3, 2017

https://iranhr.net/en/reports/18/

https://iranhr.net/media/files/Rapport_iran_2016-GB-280317-BD.pdf


Annual Report 2015: Darkest Year For Executions As Iran's Isolation Ends

Iran Human Rights
March 14, 2016

https://iranhr.net/en/reports/16/

https://iranhr.net/media/files/Rapport_iran_2014-GB-120314-BD.pdf


2014 Annual Report: At Least 753 Executions

Iran Human Rights
March 11, 2015

https://iranhr.net/en/reports/5/

https://iranhr.net/media/files/Rapport_2014_BDEF02.pdf


2013 Annual Report: Highest in 15 Years

Iran Human Rights
March 12, 2014

https://iranhr.net/en/reports/2/

https://iranhr.net/media/files/Rapport-iran-2014-GB-030314-bd-e.pdf


2012 Annual Report: Harsh Crackdowns on Freedom of Expression

Iran Human Rights
April 4, 2013

https://iranhr.net/en/reports/1/

https://iranhr.net/media/files/FINAL-Rapport_iran_2012-GB-250313-HD.pdf


2011 Annual Report: 3 Times More Public Executions

Iran Human Rights
March 4, 2012

https://iranhr.net/en/reports/9/

2010 Annual Report: Dramatic Increase in Executions

Iran Human Rights
February 23, 2011

https://iranhr.net/en/reports/8/


2009 Annual Report: Executions Highest in 10 Years

Iran Human Rights
March 9, 2010

https://iranhr.net/en/reports/7/

2008 Annual Report: At Least 350 Executions in 2008 in Iran

Iran Human Rights
February 24, 2009

https://iranhr.net/en/reports/6/

Iran: Death penalty violates fundamental rights and international law, report shows

International Federation for Human Rights
October 8, 2020

https://www.fidh.org/en/region/asia/iran/iran-death-penalty-violates-fundamental-rights-and-international-law

No one is spared

The widespread use of the death penalty in Iran

International Federation for Human Rights
October 2020

https://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/iranpdm758ang-2.pdf 

Deadly Injustice: A look at Iran's execution of 3344 Executions Since 2011

Iran Human Rights 
October 9, 2015

https://iranhr.net/en/reports/15/

https://iranhr.net/media/files/DeadlyInjustice.pdf

Death Penalty in Iran : A State Terror Policy

International Federation for Human Rights
October 10, 2013

https://www.fidh.org/en/region/asia/iran/death-penalty-in-iran-a-state-terror-policy-14075

Iran / death penalty

A state terror policy

Special edition for the 4th World Congress against the death penalty

International Federation for Human Rights
March 16, 2010

https://www.fidh.org/en/region/asia/iran/Iran-death-penalty-A-state-terror

https://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/Report_Iran_2010_En-2.pdf

Iran / death penalty

A state terror policy

International Federation for Human Rights
April 2009

https://www.fidh.org/en/region/asia/iran/A-State-Terror-Policy

https://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/Rapport_Iran_final.pdf

Iran: The last executioner of children

Amnesty International 
June 2007

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/059/2007/en/

https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/mde130592007en.pdf

https://queeramnesty.ch/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/mde130592007en.pdf

Cruel and Inhuman: Executions and Other Barbarities in Iran's Judicial System

United Against Nuclear Iran 

https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/cruel-and-inhuman-executions-and-other-barbarities-irans-judicial-system

https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/Cruel%20and%20Inhuman-%20Executions%20and%20Other%20Punishment%20in%20Iran2022-03-30_AG_JMB_CMJ.pdf

The Iran Tribunal

On the Abuse and Mass Killings of Political Prisoners in Iran, 1981-1988

Findings of the Truth Commission,
Held 18th-22nd June, 2012

Iran Tribunal Publication
2013

https://iranhrdc.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf_en/NGO_Reports/report_of_the_truth_commission_122530227.pdf