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Iranian ‘Black Widow’ accused of killing a dozen men handed 10 death sentences by Iranian court

The woman said she would marry men temporarily and, after living with them for around two to three months, would kill her victims by giving them pills or dissolving the pills in their drinks.

A noose with mock flowers displayed during a demonstration by Franco-Iranian associations, including the Committee to Support Human Rights in Iran (CSDHI) against the capital punishment in Iran, a day after the World Day Against the Death Penalty, in central Paris on October 11, 2025.
A noose with mock flowers displayed during a demonstration by Franco-Iranian associations, including the Committee to Support Human Rights in Iran (CSDHI) against the capital punishment in Iran, a day after the World Day Against the Death Penalty, in central Paris on October 11, 2025.

Iran executions return to near-daily pace as war distracts world from domestic repression

Ramin Parsa holds his child in their family home in Israel

Iranian Christian dissident denied right to stay in Israel with his wife, child - interview

Iranians residing in Armenia hold a demonstration in solidarity with Iranian protestors, outside the Iranian embassy in Yerevan on January 15, 2026.

Iranian rapper sentenced to death for 'writing protest slogans on walls'


January protesters continue to receive death sentences as Islamic regime continues suppression

Mehdi Khaneki was executed for "operational actions" that benefited Israel, the United States, and hostile groups, as well as for what the judiciary described as crimes committed during the protests.

Illustrative: Demonstrators march across the Francis Scott Key Bridge during a rally in support of the Iranian people and to condemn the execution of political prisoners in Iran, in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2026.

Iran executes more than 100 people in June alone, human rights group claims

Iran’s execution toll has reached at least 370 this year, with more than 100 killings reported in June alone, according to a Iranian human rights watchdog.

Fans holds the banner reading 'Stop Execution in Iran' before the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group G match between Belgium and IR Iran at Los Angeles Stadium on June 21, 2026.

Hamas executes Gazan for 'collaborating' with Israeli intelligence - report

Hamas sources said that the man confessed to the charges immediately after his arrest following the assassination of Hamas commander Izz al-Din Haddad.

Hamas members look on as they escort members of the Red Cross towards an area within the yellow line, in Gaza City, November 12, 2025.

Islamic regime’s stream of human rights abuses, repression continues, experts say

Since the beginning of 2026 alone, at least 45 political prisoners and individuals on security-related charges were executed, according to the Center for Human Rights in Iran.

Naz Gharai, from Tehran, is covered in red paint as protesters call on the United Nations to take action against the treatment of women in Iran, following the death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the morality police, during a demonstration near UN headquarters in New York City on November 19

There was no regime change in Iran, and Donald Trump knows it - opinion

Trump would have us believe the people running Iran today are a different, new regime – that the architects of the January massacres are gone, replaced by new, more reasonable people. 

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump checks his tie at the G7 summit.

In bid to relieve international pressure, Islamic regime frees 139 Iranians sentenced to death

"They free a few hundred in every celebration, every festival, and it seems from outside that they are a kind and democratic and merciful regime…but they are taking hostages," said Sabti.

People take part in a protest ahead of an expected signing of an agreement to end the U.S.-Iran conflict, according to U.S. and Pakistani leaders, in Tehran, Iran, in this still image obtained from a social media video released on June 13, 2026.

Gov’t allocates over NIS 1 billion to prosecute October 7 terrorists in military tribunals

Lawmakers who sponsored the bill likened it to the Eichmann trials in 1961, which broadcast live and recorded testimonies of Holocaust survivors throughout the world before the execution.

Terrorists from Hamas's Nukhba Force being held at Ofer Prison near Jerusalem, August 28, 2024.

Iran increases checkpoints in Kurdish region as minority group disproportionally executed

Recent events, including the January demonstrations that were violently suppressed by the regime, have also seen Iran’s Kurdish community disproportionately affected by state violence.

A view shows the outskirts of an Iranian Kurdish military facility north of Erbil, Iraq, on March 11, 2026, after it was struck by an Iranian drone.

Iran executes two men over January mosque arson amid trial outcry

Mehrdad Mohammadinia and Ashkan Maleki had allegedly been part of a group of demonstrators who targeted the Jafari Mosque in Tehran's Gisha neighborhood.

Demonstrators hold signs as they gather near the Francis Scott Key Bridge during rally in support of the Iranian people and to condemn the execution of political prisoners in Iran, in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2026.

Iran's regime continues irregular death sentencing as it hunts for 'Israeli collaborators'

The new execution orders follow the state killing of Gholamreza Khani Shekarab, who was hanged on Tuesday after being accused of being “one of Mossad’s operational ringleaders abroad."

Members of the Iranian police attend a pro-government rally in Tehran, Iran, January 12, 2026.