The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on 21 August reported that at least ten prisoners in Iran face imminent risk of execution, with nearly 70 others at high risk. Among them are women and at least 66 political prisoners who have received death sentences in political and security cases.
According to CHRI, this development follows the execution of more than 800 people by Iranian authorities in 2025.
The group noted that prisoners including Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani were “secretly executed” in previous cases without prior notification to their families or lawyers. The same method, CHRI warned, could be applied to prisoners currently facing the death penalty. The executions have reportedly taken place without due process, including denial of counsel and instances of torture.
“These executions in Iran are nothing less than state-sanctioned murders based on fabricated charges, coerced confessions, and secret proceedings. They constitute grave and irreversible human rights violations, and the absence of sustained international pressure has allowed the Islamic Republic to continue these killings with impunity,” said Hadi Ghaemi, CHRI’s executive director.
CHRI highlighted that Iranian courts impose death sentences using vague political charges such as “spreading corruption on earth,” a charge frequently used in political cases despite its incompatibility with international law.
International organisations including the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Amnesty International have issued warnings in response to the executions.
“The Islamic Republic has learned it can hand out death sentences at will, and hang its alleged critics without so much as a whisper of protest amongst the community of nations, let alone any real consequences for these unlawful killings,” said Ghaemi. He called for a stronger international response to what he described as “due process by a judiciary that has been weaponized to silence dissent.”
(This article was written by Tisya Sharma, she is an intern at StratNewsGlobal)
