As Iran's wave of political executions continues, 75 French lawmakers took the unusual step of formally adopting individual ...

Iran accelerates executions of dissidents and protesters amid internet censorship, with actual numbers almost certainly higher than documented figures.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iranian Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei attends a meeting of the heads of the three branches of government in Tehran.

The ruthless Iranian regime executed over 2,100 people in 2025, more than doubling the number of those put to death the year before — and pushing the total number of executions across the globe to a ...

Demonstrators gathered in Paris for a protest against repression and executions in Iran, defying an official ban.

Iran executed two men on May 13 as the accelerated campaign of political hangings since the start of the war with the United States and Israel shows no signs of abating. Ehsan Afrashteh, a ...

The use of the death penalty skyrocketed last year, with documented executions reaching a worldwide high not seen since 1981, a new report found. A majority of the increase came from Iran, where the ...

Iran put to death over 2,150 people last year, a "staggering" increase that pushed recorded worldwide executions to their highest level since 1981, Amnesty International said on May 18. Amnesty said ...