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Iranian regime responsible for 64% of global executions

2025.04.08, 14:27
Iranian regime responsible for 64% of global executions

In 2024, 972 prisoners were executed in Iran, which is equivalent to 64% of all executions in the world last year.

Gunaz.tv

More people were executed in 2024 than in any other year over the past decade, mainly reflecting a huge increase in executions in Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, according to Amnesty International’s annual report on the use of the death penalty.

The human rights NGO said that although the number of countries carrying out executions was the lowest on record, it had confirmed 1,518 executions globally in 2024, a 32% increase over the previous year and the highest since the 1,634 carried out in 2015.

The real total was far higher, Amnesty added, because its figure did not include thousands believed to have been executed in China, the world’s biggest executioner, or North Korea and Vietnam, also thought to use the death penalty extensively.

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