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The #NoDeathPenaltyTuesdays has entered 100th week on Christmas Eve. Women's ward off Yazd Prison has joins the ongoing hunger strike campaign in 55 prisons nationwide.
Resistance comes as executions in Iran surpass 2,000 in 2025.
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The 100th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign in 55 Prisons Across Iran
On Tuesday, December 23, 2025, the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign marks its 100th week, and with the women's ward
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December 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Amid a tsunami of executions in 2025, 61 women were executed in Iran.
In just the last five months, 35 women—almost one every four days.

This escalation reflects the systematic and accelerating use of capital punishment as a tool of repression.

#StopExecutionsInIran
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Iran’s Unprecedented and Alarming Surge in the Execution of Women
According to the latest consolidated data, at least 1,791 people were executed in Iran from the beginning of 2025 through
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December 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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1,956 executions recorded until 15 December 2025, keeping Iran the world’s leading executioner per capita.
While executions are used as a tool of fear, repression, and control, silence enables this ongoing crime. We urge for accountability
#StopExecutionsInIran
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December 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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From lethal COVID-19 policies and concealed mass deaths to profiteering in vaccines, soaring drug prices, and the denial of medical care in prisons, our report documents a systematic violation of the right to health in Iran. @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social
iran-hrm.com/2025/12/16/s...
Systematic Violation of the Right to Health in Iran
From a Strategy of “Human Casualties” During COVID-19 to the Black Market in Medicines and the Silent Death of Sick
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December 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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The 5th report in our corruption series exposes Iran’s prisons as organized economic hubs: forced labor, IRGC-linked contracts, drug networks, and profit extraction from detainees. Prisons are central to the regime’s corruption and control system. @gtconway.bsky.social
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Network of Corruption in the Ruling Regime – Part 5
Structural Corruption in Prisons: The Hidden Economy, Forced Labor, and the Role of the IRGC, Judiciary, and Prisoners’ Cooperative Foundation
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December 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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The 4th series on systemic corruption reveals how Iran's judiciary is a central pillar of impunity, repression, and corruption rather than a guardian of justice. It protects powerful networks and political elites, enabling widespread abuses...
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The Network of Corruption in the Mullahs’ Regime – Part 4
Structural Corruption in the Mullahs’ Regime: Hidden Mechanisms of Power in Iran Corruption in Iran’s governing structure is not confined
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December 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Our latest report shows trafficking of women and children embedded in Iran's security apparatus, with protected routes, administrative collusion, and victims punished instead of perpetrators...
Documented failure and official complicity.
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Security Corruption and Human Trafficking – Part 3
This report is the third part of our analytical series on the structure of corruption within the ruling regime in
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December 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Our 2nd series on systemic economic corruption in Iran:
From EIKO’s $95B empire and Astan Quds’ tax-exempt monopolies to IRGC’s Khatam HQ taking 5,000 projects without tender, Iran’s wealth is locked in a closed loop of rent, monopoly, and political patronage.
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Structural Economic Corruption in Iran – part2
This report constitutes the second part of a five-section analytical series examining the structure of corruption in Iran. The first
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December 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Corruption in Iran is not just an economic crime — it’s a direct assault on human rights.
Our new report exposes how systemic theft fuels repression.
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iran-hrm.com/2025/12/08/t...
The Corruption Network in the Mullahs’ Regime in Iran :  Structure and Hidden Functions of Power
December 9, the International Anti-Corruption Day, is a reminder that corruption is not merely an economic offense; it is a
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December 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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On #HumanRightsDay, Iran faces one of its darkest years in decades. Our 2025 Annual Assessment shows a systematic, escalating pattern of violations.
🔴 1,791 executions in 11 months, highest in 40 years
@drmaisato.bsky.social #StopExecutionsinIran #StandUp4HumanRights
iran-hrm.com/2025/12/09/t...
Widespread and Systematic Pattern of Human Rights Violations in Iran
Annual Assessment – 2025 On the occasion of Human Rights Day, the human rights situation in Iran has once again
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December 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, a 30-yr-old boxing champion, has been moved to solitary confinement in Vakilabad Prison.
All phone lines have been cut — a known pre-execution tactic in Iran’s prisons. His family warns his life is in immediate danger. @drmaisato.bsky.social
iran-hrm.com/2025/12/06/i...
Immediate Risk to the Life of Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani
Credible reports from Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad indicate that Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, a political prisoner sentenced to death, was
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December 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Iran faced one of the deadliest months on record.
We have documented an unprecedented 336 executions in November 2025—an average of 11 hangings per day, including 9 women.
#stopexecutionsiniran
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December 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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New data from Iran’s prisons reveals a shocking surge in women jailed for small financial debts — not for crimes, but for the collapsing economy and lack of social protection.
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Rising Number of Incarcerated Women for Financial Debt in Iran
Recent data from prisons across Iran offers a stark picture of the unprecedented rise in women imprisoned for financial debt;
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December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Another judge of death in Iran’s machinery of repression:
Seyed Hadi Mansouri, head of Branch 4 of the Mashhad Revolutionary Court, has been at the center of issuing rushed death sentences and brutal rulings—especially during the 2022 protests. @juristnews.bsky.social
iran-hrm.com/2025/12/03/d...
Death Judges in Iran – Part Nine
Seyed Hadi Mansouri, the head judge of Branch 4 of the Mashhad Revolutionary Court, is one of the central judicial
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December 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Iran just recorded its deadliest month of executions in nearly four decades.
At least 336 people were hanged in November — 9 women, 2 public hangings, and multiple mass executions across 35 cities.
#StopExecutionsInIran @drmaisato.bsky.social @dpruoxford.bsky.social
iran-hrm.com/2025/12/01/i...
Iran Human Rights Monthly Report — November 2025
The month of November 2025 witnessed a shocking surge in the Iranian regime's use of capital punishment, reaching at least
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December 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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The case files under Judge Assef al-Hosseini reveal a systematic pattern: torture, coerced confessions, closed-door hearings, and death verdicts rushed through without evidence.
iran-hrm.com/2025/11/27/d...
Death Judges in Iran – Part 8
The judicial and security conduct of Judge Seyyed Mousa Assef al-Hosseini in political, security, and protest-related cases of 2022 has
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November 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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In this edition, we expose Seyyed Mousa Assef al-Hosseini, head of Branch 1 of Karaj Revolutionary Court, who played a direct role in the execution of Mohammad Mehdi Karami & Mohammad Hosseini, & oversaw sham trials against 15 detained children after 2022 Karaj protests.
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Judges of Death – Part 7
Seyyed Mousa Assef al-Hosseini, the head of Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Karaj, is one of the most
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November 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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On #UniversalChildrensDay, Iran’s children face anything but safety.
The regime executes juveniles, killed dozens of children in 2022, fuels child marriage, trafficking, forced labor, poverty, and discrimination—especially against girls and minorities. iran-hrm.com/2025/11/19/l...
Lost Childhoods in Iran
On the International Day of the Child In many countries around the world, the International Day of the Child is
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November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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On World Day for the Prevention of Child Sexual Exploitation, we expose the hidden crisis of sexual violence against children in Iran.
#EndChildSexualAbuse
Legalized child marriage, institutional secrecy, and impunity have left girls and boys defenseless. @unicef.org
iran-hrm.com/2025/11/17/s...
Sexual Violence and Exploitation Against Children Under the State Structure in Iran
18 November, the World Day for the Prevention of and Healing from Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Violence, is a
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November 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Iman Afshari, the unelected head of Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, is one of the most notorious architects of political executions in Iran. A man with no legal education, acting solely on intelligence agency orders.
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Judges of Death  – Part 5
Iman Afshari, the head of Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, is one of the notorious figures within the
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November 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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New findings from our Part 2 report reveal a systematic pattern of abuse inside Iran’s Fashafouyeh Prison—medical deprivation, torture, forced labor.
We urge urgent international access and accountability.
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Fashafouyeh Prison – Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary – Part Two
Legal and International Analysis What was detailed in the first part of this report is not a collection of isolated
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November 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Known among inmates as “the end of the world,” Fashafouyeh Prison stands as a monument to Iran’s policy of human degradation. Overcrowding, extortion for basic needs, contaminated water, and torture have turned it into a system of slow death. @prisoninsider.bsky.social
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Fashafouyeh Prison – Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary – Part One
The Living Reality: A Prison Where Suffering Never Ends Fashafouyeh Prison, officially known as the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary, is
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November 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Zahra Shahbaz Tabari has been sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court in Rasht, Iran after a 10-minute video trial without a lawyer, accused of supporting the PMOI.
The only “evidence”: a cloth reading “Woman, Resistance, Freedom.”
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Death Sentence for Zahra Shahbaz Tabari: A 10-Minute Trial Without Justice
In another case of severe repression against political prisoners, Zahra Shahbaz Tabari, a 67-year-old political prisoner from Rasht, has been
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October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Known as the judge of death, Abolqasem Salavati, head of Branch 15 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, has issued at least 25 death sentences and 1,000+ years of prison terms in politically driven trials.
Defendants were tortured, denied lawyers, and sentenced in minutes.
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The Death Judges: Agents of the Clerical Regime’s Crimes – Part 4
As part of the ongoing series 'Judges of Death,' this report focuses on Abolqasem Salavati, head of Branch 15 of
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November 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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🚨 October 2025: Iran’s bloodiest month in years
At least 279 executions in one month — nearly one every 2–3 hours — bringing the total to 1,455 in 2025.
Among them: 8 women, one juvenile offender, and 7 political prisoners. #StopExecutionsInIran
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Iran Human Rights Monthly Report — October 2025
October 2025 saw an unprecedented escalation in executions across Iran, alongside intensified pressure on political prisoners, systemic medical neglect, and
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November 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM