Execution

While an estimated 2,000 people have been killed in anti-Islamic regime protests in recent weeks, Erfaneh Soltani is the first protester to be sentenced to execution.

Entangled in a decades-long shadow war with Israel, Iran has executed many people it has accused of having links with Israel's intelligence service and facilitating its operations in the country.

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.

Aghil Keshavarz, a Shahrood University student, was executed on Saturday, after Iran's judiciary convicted him of spying for Israel.

"Such deliberate killing of civilians or persons hors de combat may constitute the war crime of murder,” said the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, in a statement.

Reiner could face life without parole or the death penalty if convicted, though “no decision” has been made on whether prosecutors will seek capital punishment.

Human rights groups estimate that more than 1,000 people have been executed in Iran in 2025 alone.

Vahid Razavi, a member of the Vadi family, told the dissident media site that Rouzbeh Vadi was detained a year and a half ago after a dispute at work.

Goli Koukhan paid the family of her dead abusive husband 10bn tomans in a diyah (blood money) payment to avoid being put to death by the Islamic regime.

Gazelle Sharmahd, whose father, Jamshid Sharmahd, was executed by the Iranian regime in 2024, issued a public plea to the UN after her father's body was returned with multiple parts missing.