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Saudi Arabia has executed 100 people so far this year. The article also references a 2018 meeting between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.

French police arrested around 20 people in Paris as demonstrators defied a ban to protest against repression and executions in Iran. The rally was prohibited due to concerns about potential clashes with regime supporters amid a tense national and international context.

French police banned a planned Iranian opposition rally in Paris, citing a risk of violence. The National Resistance Council of Iran criticized the last-minute cancellation as unjustified.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, announced support for abolishing the death penalty, citing data showing it is not a deterrent to violent crime and noting long delays in executions. He highlighted that condemned inmates often die of natural causes or suicide before execution and that death sentences are frequently overturned.

A UN report states that Hamas members executed and maimed dozens of Palestinians in Gaza during the war. The human rights office identified extrajudicial punishments including executions, kneecapping, bone-breaking with metal pipes or cement bricks, and beatings.

Recent abductions and executions in southwestern Nigeria have highlighted the religious nature of threats to the country's peace and security.

Iran, already having one of the highest capital punishment rates, is reportedly using the current conflict to increase executions, according to rights groups, aiming to repress dissent.

Governments around the world executed more people in 2025 than at any point since 1981, marking a 44-year high in executions.

Iran executed Gholamreza Khani Shakarab for alleged spying on Israel, with the judiciary labeling him a 'ringleader of Mossad abroad.' The execution is part of a broader crackdown on espionage-related charges.

Iran executed Gholamreza Khani Shakarab, accusing him of being an operational leader of Mossad abroad. The execution occurs amid a rise in Iran's death penalty cases.

Dr. Sheila Nazarian, an Iranian-American plastic surgeon, accused actress Elizabeth Banks of hypocrisy for not addressing Iran's human rights abuses against women, including executions of protesters. Nazarian highlighted the Iranian regime's violent treatment of female prisoners and shared her family's escape from Iran during the 1979 revolution.

Iran executed 1,639 people in the last year, the highest number in 37 years, according to a report by an NGO. The Islamic Republic's judicial system has been criticized for its high execution rate and alleged use of capital punishment as a tool for political control.