Executions in Iran & Iranian Kurdistan, 2025 Review
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- Jul 10
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Similar to previous years, the share of executions of Kurdish citizens remains dramatically high. According to the data collected by KMMK-G, from January 1 to 10th July 2025, at least six hundreds sixty-eight (668) prisoners including 17 women were executed in Iran. At least, one hundred fifty (150) were Kurds including three (3) women.
In 2024, at least 970 prisoners were reported executed in Iran. Over 40% of them were Kurdish and Baloch citizens while they make up only 20% of Iranian populations. Over 65% of Iran’s political executions are Kurds, 25% Baluchis and 10% Ahwaz-Arabs.
Recently, on 25th June 2025, three (3) Kurdish kolbar Mr. Edris Ilahi, Mr. Azad Shojaei and Mr. Rasoul Ahmad (from Iraqi Kurdistan) were executed in Urumiyeh (Wermê) Central Prison under the fabricated charges of espionage for Israel. They were executed discretely without any prior notice to their families or lawyers.
On 7th July, 2025, five (5) Kurdish political prisoners, Pejman Soltani, Kaveh Salehi, Ali (Souran) Ghasemi, Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri and Teifour Salimi Babamiri, related to the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement, were sentenced to death by the Branch 1 of the Urmia Revolutionary Court.
Crimes and charges against Kurdish prisoners
Nine (9) Kurdish prisoners were executed for political and opinion related charges (3 accused of the fabricated crimes of spying for Israel, one for membership of a Kurdish political party, another one for participation in the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement, four others for opinion and belief). Eighty-one (81) prisoners were executed for murder and another forty-nine (49) for drug-related offences. Three (3) others were executed for robbery and one for rape. Another prisoner died or killed in suspicious manner in prison in Kermanshah.
Currently, over 40 Kurdish political prisoners including Ms. Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish humanitarian Aid who helped Yezidis refugees in Iraq and Syria with Ms. Werishe Moradi another Kurdish political prisoner are at imminent risk of execution.
So far, for the same period namely from January 1st till 10th of July 2025, forty (40) foreign nationals, virtually all Afghan refugees were executed in Iran for drug and murder related offences.
KMMK-G believes that whenever the regime is facing a power crisis internally or internationally, the number of executions increases in particular against ethnic minorities. Iran’s policy of execution is not about the administration of justice, it’s a policy of the control of populations, dissents and in particular against the Iranian national, ethnic & religious minorities. This is why it’s important that the international community must voice out and stand against these unlawful executions.
