Iran executed over 1K prisoners in 2024 — its highest body count in 30 years: report

The Islamic Republic of Iran executed over 1,000 prisoners in 86 prisons across the country in 2024, according to a report by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

The Mission declined to comment.

The NCRI reports that 119 of the executed prisoners were from the Baluchi minority. An August 2024 report from the United Nations-mandated Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran said that the Baluchis make up 2% of the Iranian population.

According to Rajavi, “any negotiations or dealings with the regime must be conditioned on ending executions and torture. Its leaders must be brought to justice for 45 years of crimes against humanity and genocide.”

About 47% took place in the fourth quarter of 2024, when the regime “faced severe defeats in the region and mounting economic and social crises,” the NCRI said.

The fact-finding mission also found that ethnic and religious minorities have been “disproportionately impacted by the Government’s response to the protests that began in September 2022,” after Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman arrested for not wearing a headscarf, died in Iranian custody.

Fox News Digital reached out to the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations for comment about the regime’s record level of executions.

“I no longer know how much more I must see and endure,” Masouri writes, explaining that from the moment of his sentencing, he “considered every meeting to be his last and every ‘opening and closing’ sound of the door as a death knell.” 

Also among those executed by the Iranian regime in 2024 was 69-year-old journalist Jamshid Sharmahd, a German citizen and 20-year resident of the United States who was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020.

Sharmahd was executed in October after being charged with “corruption on earth” in what was called a “grossly unfair” trial.

In an open letter shared by the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, 25-year-old political prisoner Saeed Masouri wrote that “we witness an execution every four hours on average.”

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