UN experts urge Iran to end escalating targeting of ethnic minorities

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UN experts urge Iran to end escalating targeting of ethnic minorities

06 August 2026

 

GENEVA – UN experts* today called on Iranian authorities to end the escalating arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment, and arbitrary executions of ethnic minorities, particularly Kurdish and Baluch minorities.

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Sharp spike in executions, death sentences in Iran

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The United Nations News     |     August 5, 2026

The UN rights chief expressed alarm on Wednesday over the sharp increase in executions and death sentences in Iran since the US-Israeli bombing campaign began in late February, warning that capital punishment is being used to intimidate the population and suppress dissent.

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Iranian revolution can happen ‘any day now’ as protest leaders try to arm: sources

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New York Post     |     David Spector     |     Aug. 2, 2026

The streets of Iran are near a breaking point over public executions, economic collapse and a war that’s been raging on for more than five months, anti-regime figures in Tehran told The Post.

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The hanging of an Iranian activist exposes a regime at the end of its rope

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 Washington Examiner    |   Dr. Majid Rafizadeh   |   7/25/2026

Iran’s judiciary announced on Wednesday that it had executed 26-year-old Mehdi Khanaki, a law graduate accused of active participation in the nationwide January 2026 uprising and membership in what the authorities described as a “terrorist group.” The regime’s Mizan news agency did not identify the organization by name. The National Council

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Iran executes man over January protests, judiciary’s news agency says

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By Reuter     |     
DUBAI, July 22 (Reuters) – Iran executed a man on charges linked to nationwide protests in January, an opposition group ​and the Iranian judiciary’s official Mizan news agency reported ‌on Wednesday.
Mizan identified the man as Mehdi Khaneki and said he was executed for “operational actions” that benefited Israel, the United States and hostile
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