HRANA – At dawn today, Tuesday, November 25, the death sentence of a prisoner in the city of Bastam, previously convicted on the charge of rape, was carried out in public.

The Chief Justice of Semnan Province stated that this man was arrested in 2022 on charges of “rape and coercion” involving two women in Bastam. He was later sentenced to death by Branch 2 of the Criminal Court One of the province, and the verdict was upheld by the Supreme Court.

He added that the execution was carried out this morning, in public, within the Bastam judicial district.

The report does not mention the identity of the executed prisoner.

In 2024, according to 812 reports compiled by HRANA, the Iranian regime executed 930 individuals in its prisons, marking the highest number of executions in the past 12 years. Despite the scale of these executions, prison officials and other relevant authorities publicly acknowledged only 6% of them, highlighting the regime’s lack of transparency and accountability.