World Observes 23rd Day Against Death Penalty as Iran Hits Record 1,105 Executions in 2025
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On October 10, 2025, the global community marks the 23rd World Day Against the Death Penalty, spotlighting a surge in executions led by Iran, where authorities have carried out at least 1,105 this year, surpassing three-decade highs and often targeting women, ethnic minorities, and dissidents for non-violent offenses.
The United Nations and Amnesty International emphasize that capital punishment does not deter crime or serve victims, while the European Union and rights groups like the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty call for moratoriums and universal abolition. Activists, including Maryam Rajavi, accuse Iran's regime of using executions to suppress protests, amid rising international condemnation and events like a London conference organized by Iran Human Rights Activists.
Maryam Rajavi said at this conference:
On this World Day Against the Death Penalty, I pay tribute to all those who were executed for their struggle for freedom.
On this day, the world’s outrage and revulsion are directed at the religious tyranny ruling Iran, a regime of executions and massacres, a monster of death, and a symbol of destruction.
Imprisonment and executions do not weaken the resolve of the Iranian people. On the contrary, they make the regime more vulnerable and unstable in the face of popular fury. Nothing can halt the storm of uprisings.
Yes, this is the message of the brave prisoners who, every week on the “No to Execution Tuesdays,” expose the disgraceful regime of executions and massacres. It is also the message of the restless youth and of the Resistance Units that have kept the flames of uprising burning across Iran.
Our Vision: An Iran without Executions and Torture
I am speaking on behalf of a blood-drenched Resistance that has lost more than 100,000 of its members at the hands of the religious fascism ruling Iran.
Our plan for the future calls for an Iran without executions and torture.
Our plan for the future will abolish the clerical Sharia laws.
The regime’s courts of injustice and all institutions of repression, execution, and espionage must be dissolved.
We reject the inhuman Penal Code and all other laws that violate human rights under this regime. We denounced the so-called “law of retribution” (Qesas) from the very beginning, when it was first introduced in 1981 in the regime’s parliament, as inhuman and incompatible with the true teachings of Islam.
We advocate laws based on forgiveness, compassion, and humanity.
During the battles of the National Liberation Army of Iran, the Leader of the Iranian Resistance, Massoud Rajavi, released thousands of the regime’s captured military personnel without infringing on their human rights. This is the enduring tradition of the Iranian Resistance, and members of the Resistance follow such teachings.
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