# amnesty iran 2025 extract

Amnesty International, Iran 2025 page captured via browser on 2026-08-25.
URL: https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/middle-east-and-north-africa/middle-east/iran/report-iran/

Key captured excerpts:
- "The 12-day armed conflict between Iran and Israel led to civilian deaths and involved violations of international humanitarian law. Iranian authorities used the conflict to intensify internal repression. Thousands were arbitrarily detained, interrogated, harassed and/or unjustly prosecuted for exercising their human rights. Authorities used unlawful force and firearms to disperse protests, leading to deaths... Trials remained systematically unfair. The death penalty was applied arbitrarily and was used disproportionately against minorities. The highest number of executions since 1989 was recorded."
- "Security and intelligence bodies and judicial authorities perpetrated widespread and systematic violations against those exercising their rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly."
- "Among those targeted were protesters, dissidents, women and girls defying compulsory veiling, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, labour rights activists, environmental activists, social media users, artists, musicians, writers, academics, university students, LGBTI people, members of oppressed ethnic and religious minorities, families of those killed during protests, and workers including nurses, teachers and truck drivers. Violations included: arbitrary detention; enforced disappearance; torture and other ill-treatment; death threats; unfair trials leading to prison sentences, flogging, fines and/or the death penalty; surveillance; harassment; interrogations; travel bans; asset freezes; confiscation of property; and suspension or expulsion from education or employment."
- "Trials were systematically unfair, rendering detentions and executions arbitrary. Authorities routinely denied detainees access to lawyers during investigations and based convictions on torture-tainted 'confessions' that were frequently broadcast by state television."
- "Authorities carried out the highest number of executions recorded since 1989. Public executions were carried out."
- "The escalation was driven by increased use of the death penalty as a tool of political repression and lethal anti-narcotics policies."
- "In June, authorities shielded the perpetrators of the unlawful killing of nine-year-old Kian Pirfalak during the Woman Life Freedom protests in 2022 from accountability by arbitrarily executing a protester, Mojahed (Abbas) Kourkouri, for Kian Pirfalak’s death following a grossly unfair trial."