Iran’s treatment of prisoners in 2025 was also rife with abuses, according to the report, with 2,513 cases of prisoners being held in inappropriate conditions.
Iran conducted the highest number of executions in over a decade (1,922), the Iranian human rights group Human Rights Activists (HRA) announced in its annual statistical report for 2025.
The report claimed that the implementation of death sentences doubled compared to 2024, although the issuance of them decreased by 21.4%. More concerning, however, was the report’s statement that “95% of executions were carried out in secret or without public announcement.”
There were 22,028 arrests over freedom of thought and expression in 2025, the HRA report stated. This is 13 times as many arrests than were made in 2024, and makes up the majority of the 22,709 total arrests made in connection with civil, ideological, political, or rights-related activities this year.
Jews accounted for 7.61% of reported religious rights incidents, including home searches, property violations, and other abuses. Arrests related to general religious minority rights doubled in the last year, to a total of 183, while convictions increased by 67.4%.
Also enumerated in the report were over 70,000 cases of child labor, and at least 23,000 cases of child abuse. The section of the report detailing child marriage statistics was outdated, with the only datum originating from 2025 being that 1,474 babies were born to mothers aged 10 to 14.
Iran’s mistreatment of prisoners
Iran’s treatment of prisoners in 2025 was also rife with abuses, according to the report, with 2,513 cases of prisoners being held in inappropriate conditions.
HRA also detailed hundreds of cases of prisoner’s being denied due process elements such as access to legal counsel, the right to make to phone calls, and access to medical leave.
The sentencing of those prisoners was no less abusive.
Ninety-six individuals were sentenced to a total of 5,041 lashes. Additionally, the courts passed down six sentences of amputation, and five sentences of “limb retribution,” a form of punishment in which one is given the right to inflict a wound done on them back to the perpetrator.
The HRA specifies that these statistics are only given for cases in which details of the verdict were made public, and that the true numbers are unknown.