Iran: UN Human Rights Commissioner calls for moratorium on death penalty

The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights have called for a halt to increasing executions and to impose a moratorium on the application of the death penalty as a step towards its abolition.

Information gathered by the UN Human Rights Office has revealed and reported that Iranian authorities have executed at least 841 people since the beginning of the year and up until 28 August 2025, ignoring multiple calls to join the worldwide movement towards abolition of the death penalty.

In July 2025, 110 individuals were executed by Iranian authorities, which is more than double the number of people executed last year.

The increasingly high number of executions indicates that there is a pattern of using the death penalty as a tool of State intimidation,  with disproportionate targeting of ethnic minorities and migrants.

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