On Thursday evening, 18 December 2025, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning the Iranian regime’s grave, widespread and systematic human rights violations. This was the 72nd resolution of its kind to be adopted, passing with 78 votes in favor and 27 against.
The General Assembly resolution strongly condemns the alarming and continuous use of the death penalty on a widespread scale. It states that carrying out death sentences based on forced confessions, without a fair trial or the presence of a lawyer, and without informing the family, constitutes a gross violation of the Iranian regime’s international obligations. It emphasises that the regime uses executions as a tool of political repression to silence opponents, protesters, and participants in peaceful demonstrations. The resolution also expresses serious concern about the disproportionate use of capital punishment against women, as well as ethnic and religious minorities.
It also deems the execution of individuals under the age of 18 to be a blatant violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and demands its immediate cessation. The resolution further condemns a wide range of abuses, including torture, sexual and gender-based violence, inhuman and degrading treatment, amputation, grossly disproportionate punishments, arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, systematic violations of the right to a fair trial, denial of medical treatment to prisoners, and the targeted repression and systematic discrimination against women and girls. It also expresses serious concern about suspicious deaths in custody.
The resolution also condemns the suppression of popular protests and the severe restriction of freedom of expression, as well as the transnational repression of opponents abroad. It emphasises the need to end the systematic impunity enjoyed by human rights violators in Iran.
Iran- UN General Assembly resolution & Dr Mai Sato
Dr. Mai Sato, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, wrote on her X account and stated:
“I have been closely following reports concerning the continued detention of at least 25 individuals arrested during the seventh-day memorial for a human rights lawyer who allegedly died in his office in Mashhad. I have received information that some are being held in unknown locations. Peaceful mourning and the expression of grief must be respected.”
UN Special Rapporteur for Iran Mai Sato on Friday welcomed the release of an Iranian child bride who was on death row for killing her abusive husband, warning that the case exposes deep-rooted institutional injustices in Iran’s judicial system.
“The diyah (blood money) has been paid, but while we celebrate saving one life, we cannot ignore the institutional and structural injustices that brought Goli Kouhkan to the brink of death,” Sato said in a post on X.
Iran: Weaponizing Justice System to Persecute Baha’is
(Geneva) –Iranian authorities are escalating their repression of Baha’is, with a recent series of harsh prison sentences and asset confiscations, the Bahá’í International Community (BIC) and Human Rights Watch said today. Iran’s judiciary has been leading the persecution of Baha’is, amid increasing public incitement to discrimination by state officials, hate propaganda, and disinformation targeting the religious minority community. News https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/12/10/iran-weaponizing-justice-system-to-persecute-bahais
So far in 2025, the number of registered executions has exceeded 2,000 — more than double the number in 2024.
Among those executed this year, 60 were women and six were juvenile offenders. These shocking figures reveal the criminal nature of the regime’s systematic use of the death penalty and demonstrate its complete disregard for the most basic principles of human rights.
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