Iran

Massacre of protesters - NEWS - 14/01/2026 - PETITION 15/01/2026

Verified images and credible information from eye witnesses reveal mass unlawful killings committed on an unprecedented scale amidst an ongoing internet shutdown imposed by the authorities. Read more.

On 08 January 2026, Iranian authorities imposed an internet and telecommunications blackout in an attempt to hide the violations occurring during the deadly crackdown on protesters. Read more.

Iranian authorities have unleashed a deadly crackdown on protesters across the country since 28 December 2025, marked by security forces unlawful use of force and firearms, and mass arbitrary arrests. Read more.

Amnesty International was among a number of civil society organisations to sign a join letter urging the United Nations Human Rights Council to urgently convene a special session to address the unprecedented escalation in mass unlawful killings of protesters. Read more.

A petition calling for an end to the protest massacres can be found here.

Over 1,000 people executed - NEWS - 26/09/2025 - URGENT ACTION UPDATE - 10/09/2025

Iranian authorities have executed over 1,000 people so far in 2025, the highest number of yearly executions in Iran that Amnesty International has recorded in at least 15 years. Amnesty is calling on the Iranian authorities to establish an immediate moratorium on executions as a first step, and issuing an urgent plea to other states to immediately intervene to pressure the Iranian authorities to halt all planned executions. Read more.

United Nations member states must urgently press authorities to halt executions after a horrifying increase. Read more.

There is an ongoing execution crisis in Iran, which has reached horrific proportions. Thousands of people are at risk of execution after being sentenced to death, including for drug related offences and vaguely worded charges following grossly unfair trials, or are facing investigations or prosecutions on capital charges. Since the 2022 Women Life Freedom uprising, the authorities have weaponised the death penalty as a tool of oppression, with over 800 people executed thus far in 2025 alonve. Take action.

On 27 July 2025, tortured political dissidents, Behrouz Ehsani, 69, and Mehdi Hassani, 48, were secretly executed in Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj, Alborz province. Read more.

On 11 June 2025, the Iranian judiciary announced that the Iranian authorities had executed Mojahed (Abbas) Kourkouri in connection with the 2022 Woman Life Freedom protests. Read more.

Swedish-Iranian at risk of execution - URGENT ACTION UPDATE - 24/09/2025

Iranian authorities are subjecting Swedish-Iranian academic Ahmadreza Djalali, sentenced to death following a grossly unfair trial, to enforced disappearance, a crime under international law, since 24 June 2025. Authorities are denying his family and lawyers information about this fate and whereabouts, raising fears that he is at grave risk of secret execution amid the ongoing execution crisis in Iran. Authorities have also denied Ahmadreza Djalali access to timely and adequate health care, including following a heart attack in May 2025, further heightening fears for his health and life while forcibly disappeared. Take action.

Authorities unleash wave of oppression after hostilities with Israel - NEWS - 03/09/2025

Iranian authorities are waging a terrifying crackdown under the guise of national security in the aftermath of the June 2025 hostilities with Israel. The deepening crisis underscores the urgent need for the international community to pursue concrete criminal accountability measures. Read more.

Amnesty International had previously urged the Iranian authorities to halt all plans to carry out arbitrary executions and protect all those arrested over accusations of espionage for Israel from enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment. Read more.

Officials must face accountability for torture - NEWS - 31/07/2025

On 30 July 2025, three prisoners - Hadi Rostami, Mehdi Shahivand and Mehdi Sharfian - had their fingers amputated by a guillotine machine in Urumieh Central prison, West Azerbaijan province as corporal punishment after a grossly unfair, torture tainted trial. Read more.

Millions more Afghans face expulsion - URGENT ACTION - 30/07/2025

More than one million Afghans, including those born in Iran and those living in Iran for decades, have been forcibly returned to Afghanistan in 2025 as the Iranian authorities wage an lawful expulsion campaign. The mass expulsions scaled up around the escalation of hostilities between Israel and Iran, with over half a million Afghans expelled since 01 June 2025, including several thousand unaccompanied children. Millions of others are at risk, including women and girls who must be treated as prima-facie refugees and not returned to Afghanistan where the Taliban are committing the crime against humanity of gender persecution against them. Take action.

Iranian use of cluster munitions violated international law - NEWS - 24/07/2025

The Iranian forces' use of cluster munitions during the '12 Day War' with Israel was a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. Read more.

The Israeli military's deliberate air strikes on Evin prison in Tehran on 23 June 2025 constitute a serious violation of international humanitarian law and must be criminally investigated as war crimes. Read more.

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