The UN Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council on Monday said that over 1,000 people have been executed in Iran in 2025, warning this represented a dramatic escalation that violates international human rights law.

In its release, UN experts alerted, “With an average of more than nine hangings per day in recent weeks, Iran appears to be conducting executions at an industrial scale that defies all accepted standards of human rights protection.”

The 2017 Amendment to Iran’s Anti-Narcotics Law abolished the death penalty for lower-level drug offenses and introduced a mechanism to limit capital punishment by commuting many death sentences to life imprisonment. Despite this, executions for drug-related offenses have steadily risen since 2020 and surged in 2024,

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