"Iranian authorities use the death penalty as a tool of fear, particularly targeting ethnic minorities and political dissidents after unfair trials," said Nahid Naghshbandi, acting Iran researcher at Human Rights Watch.
2024-12-05
At a conference organized by the Friends of a Free Iran parliamentary intergroup held at the European Parliament in Brussels, Maryam Rajavi, presented the NCRI’s Ten-Point Plan
2024-11-23
While Iran has long maintained the world’s highest rate of executions per capita, this represents a surge which is widely viewed as part of the regime’s strategy for intimidating the public into silence following...
2024-11-21
Since Masoud Pezeshkian became president, Iran has witnessed a shocking spike in executions, as 126 have been hanged, 26 en masse on 7 August alone. The execution spree has alarmed international organizations and activists
2024-08-30
In the midst of a new wave of executions, Iran’s new president, stressing his and his ministers’ loyalty to the Velayat-e Faqih, made a desperate appeal to the Majlis (Iran’s parliament) to approve his...
2024-08-23
Maryam Rajavi, the keynote speaker, said, "The people of Iran have repeatedly and clearly declared, "Our vote is to overthrow the regime; there is no place for elections in this regime
2024-07-03
Maryam Rajavi, said in a statement that Raisi’s death was a “monumental and irreparable blow” to the regime.
2024-05-21
NCRI leader Maryam Rajavi said that “the curse of mothers and those seeking justice for the executed, along with the damnation of the Iranian people and history, mark the legacy of Ebrahim Raisi, the...
The NCRI says some 30,000 prisoners were killed in the massacres although Western rights groups say they cannot put precise numbers and can only say thousands were killed.
2024-05-20
Raisi, once seen by some Iranian media outlets as a possible successor to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, flatly denied personal involvement in the 1988 killings while praising the decision to go ahead with...
