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Iran publicly executed on Tuesday a prisoner convicted of raping two women, in the latest case of public hanging in the Islamic Republic, the Iranian Judiciary reported.
The public hanging took place this morning in the northern city of Bastam "for committing the heinous crime of rape and coercion against two women," said the head of the Judiciary of Semnan province, Mohammad Akbari, reported the Mizan agency.
The source emphasized that the execution was carried out after fulfilling all legal stages and with full respect for religious and judicial norms.You can also read: A woman shows signs of life in the coffin before being cremated in Thailand
The identity of the executed person has not been made public. Amnesty International reported in mid-October that more than 1,000 people were executed in Iran in the first nine months of 2025, the highest figure documented in fifteen years. Around half of the executions are linked to drug offenses, 43% to murders, 3% to security offenses, the same to rapes, and 1% to espionage for Israel, but only 11% of the total were announced by official sources. The human rights group denounced that "Iranian authorities have been increasing the use of the death penalty to intimidate the population, suppress dissent, and punish marginalized communities," which has led to this year "executions reaching figures never seen in Iran since 1989." The Islamic Republic is one of the few countries where executions are occasionally carried out in public, with 88 cases between 2011 and 2024, according to an investigation by the reformist newspaper Shargh recently published. Iran was one of the main countries in the application of the death penalty with 972 executions in 2024, 119 more than in 2023, according to Amnesty International.
