IHRNGO Welcomes UN FFMI’s Probe into Iran Executions as Crimes Against Humanity

“If executions form part of a widespread and systemic attack against a civilian population, as a matter of policy, then those responsible – including the judges who impose capital punishment – may be held accountable for crimes against humanity,” said Fact-Finding Mission expert Max du Plessis.”

Iran Human Rights welcomes the UN Fact-Finding Mission’s statement and considers it an important step toward delivering justice and holding human rights violators in Iran accountable. In September, the organisation urged the Mission to investigate executions in Iran as crimes against humanity.

IHRNGO Director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said: “If the international community recognises widespread executions as crimes against humanity, it will send an unequivocal message to those running the Islamic Republic’s execution machine, from the Supreme Leader and the Head of the Judiciary to the judges who hand down the sentences, that they can be and prosecuted and held accountable. Such a step would raise the cost of executions for the authorities and slow down their execution machine.”

At least 1250 people including 36 women, have been executed in 2025, the highest recorded figure in more than 30 years.