Amnesty International Deputy Regional Director Hussein Baoumi urged UN member states on Thursday to confront Iranian authorities for the increasing “weaponization” of the death penalty in the country. Baoumi noted that over 1,000 people have been executed in Iran since the start of 2025.

Baoumi claimed that Iranian authorities have attempted to “normalize” the execution of hundreds of people every year, and that since the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests in 2022, the state has increasingly used executions as a tool to instill fear and suppress dissent while punishing marginalized communities. Baoumi stated that the current pace of executions, averaging about four killings a day, has not been seen in Iran since 1989.

The rights group also criticized Iran’s use of the death penalty ag

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