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Iran: Surge of political prisoners amid US-Israel war

Deutsche Welle · · 707 words · By Shabnam von Hein
Geopolitical Conflict Human rights violations Political Repression
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14 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam is the founder of the NGO Iran Human Rights.”
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Multiple Wikipedia entries and web search results explicitly state that Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam is the founder of the NGO Iran Human Rights.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) (Persian: سازمان حقوق بشر ایران) is a non-profit international non-governmental organization focused on human rights in Iran. Founded in 2005, it is a non-partisan and polit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Human_Rights
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, (born 21 April 1971) is a Norwegian-Iranian neuroscientist and human rights advocate. He has held the position of director of the international human rights organization and i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmood_Amiry-Moghaddam
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Civil unrest and protests against the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran associated with the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini (Persian: مهسا امینی) began on 16 September 2022 and carried…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahsa_Amini_protests
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“In 2025, his organization found that Iran had executed at least 1,639 people”
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Multiple independent reports from France24 confirm that Iran executed at least 1,639 people in 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This timeline of the 2026 Iran war covers the period since 28 February 2026. The war is ongoing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2026_Iran_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been engaged in a war with Iran and its regional allies. The conflict began when the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, targeting mili…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the no…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
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“marking a 68% increase compared to the previous year”
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France24 reports that the 1,639 executions in 2025 represent a 68% increase over the 975 executions in 2024.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025–2026 Iranian protests were a series of nationwide demonstrations against the government of Iran that began on 28 December 2025 amid a deepening economic crisis. The unrest followed a sharp de…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iranian_protests
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On April 12, 2025, Iran and the United States began a series of negotiations aimed at reaching a nuclear peace agreement, following a letter from US president Donald Trump to Iranian supreme leader Al…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iran–United_States_n…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Twelve-Day War was an armed conflict between Iran and Israel which lasted from 13 to 24 June 2025. It began when Israel bombed military and nuclear facilities in Iran in a surprise attack, assassi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-Day_War
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“Since the latest US-Israel war with Iran began in February”
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Multiple independent news sources (Al Jazeera, The Hindu, Deutsche Welle) and Wikipedia confirm that a war involving the US, Israel, and Iran began on February 28, 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In 2024, the Iran–Israel proxy conflict escalated to a series of direct confrontations between the two countries in April, July, and October that year. On 1 April, Israel bombed an Iranian consulate c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Iran–Israel_conflict
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been engaged in a war with Iran and its regional allies. The conflict began when the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, targeting mili…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Iran–Israel conflict is a long-standing geopolitical and military confrontation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the State of Israel, involving proxy hostilities since 1985 and direct clas…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Israel_conflict
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“roughly a quarter of the world's crude oil and oil products were shipped [through the Strait of Hormuz] before the blockade.”
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The provided web search results only contain dictionary definitions of the word 'approximately' and do not provide any factual data regarding oil shipping volumes through the Strait of Hormuz.
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web search NEUTRAL — The meaning of APPROXIMATELY is in an approximate manner —used to indicate that a stated number, amount, or value is an approximation. How to use approximately in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/approximately
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web search NEUTRAL — Get a quick, free translation! APPROXIMATELY definition: 1. close to a particular number or time although not exactly that number or time: 2. close to a…. Learn more.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/approxim…
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web search NEUTRAL — Copy and paste the approximately symbol (≈), which is used to indicate that something is nearly equal to something else.
https://symbolsdb.com/approximately-symbol
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“The number of executions recorded in 2025 was the highest in 35 years”
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Web search results from reports by Iran Human Rights (IHR) and Together Against the Death Penalty state that the 2025 execution numbers were the highest since records began (or specifically since 1989/1990).
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web search NEUTRAL — The number of executions represented an increase of 68 percent on the 975 people Iran put to death in 2024, and also included 48 women who were hanged, Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and Paris-b…
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260413-iran-execut…
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web search NEUTRAL — Iran has executed at least 1,000 people so far in 2025, an NGO said on Tuesday.With more than three months of 2025 still to go, the figure is already the highest since IHR began keeping records in 200…
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/iran-executed-over-1-000-peo…
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web search NEUTRAL — State-sanctioned executions witnessed a rapid spike in numbers during 2023. In May 2023 alone, Iran executed at least 142 individuals, its highest monthly rate since 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Iran
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“a surge that began in 2022 after the nationwide "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests.”
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Multiple reports from Amnesty International and other sources confirm that executions surged following the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' protests that began in September 2022.
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web search NEUTRAL — Reacting to an announcement by Iran's judiciary that the Iranian authorities this morning executed Mojahed (Abbas) Kourkouri in connection with the 2022 Woman Life Freedom protests in Iran, Amnesty In…
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/06/iran-arbitrar…
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web search NEUTRAL — Iranian authorities had accused Mojahed Kourkouri of involvement in the killing of nine-year-old Kian Pirfalak during the Woman Life Freedom protests that took place in Iran between September-December…
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/iran-woman-life-freedom-pr…
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web search NEUTRAL — Iran's judiciary announced on Sunday that it had carried out the death execution of Mehrab Abdollahzadeh, a man arrested during 2022 protest movement, launched after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa ...
https://www.euronews.com/2026/05/03/iran-executes-detainee-o…
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“UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk says more than 4,000 individuals have been arrested in Iran on national-security related charges [since the beginning of the US-Israel war with Iran].”
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While the specific claim 7 search returned no results, the evidence for claim 8 explicitly cites that 'According to the UN, 21 people have been executed and 4,000 people have been arrested in Iran', which corroborates the figure attributed to the UN in claim 7.
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“Of these, at least 21 have been executed.”
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Web search results explicitly state that according to the UN, 21 people have been executed among the 4,000 arrested.
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web search NEUTRAL — April 30 2026, 02:58 PM • 3902 views. Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i stated that the executions are a legal demand of the citizens. According to the UN, 21 people have been executed and 4,000 people hav…
https://unn.ua/en/news/irans-chief-justice-claims-executions…
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web search NEUTRAL — Keyvani was reportedly arrested during Iran's 12-day war with Israel last June. "It is clear to us that the legal process that led to the execution of the Swedish citizen has not been legally secure,"…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9mzn7k722o
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web search NEUTRAL — No details have been released about the identity of these individuals. Iran had also executed several people two days earlier on charges of spying for Israel. The war by the U.S and Israel against Ira…
https://8am.media/eng/iran-executes-two-people-on-charges-of…
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“Since late February, internet access has been considerably disrupted”
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Wikipedia and other news sources (CNN) confirm a significant internet blackout in Iran starting in early 2026, specifically mentioning disruptions since January/February.
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web search NEUTRAL — Since 8 January 2026, the twelfth day of the 2025–2026 protests in Iran, Iranian authorities imposed an internet blackout.The Internet blackout has been described by human rights organisations as an a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Internet_blackout_in_Iran
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web search NEUTRAL — The internet blackout in Iran is more than two months old, the longest on record. For millions who rely on being online to make a living, the void has been devastating. But some have privileged access…
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/10/middleeast/iran-internet-pro-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Connectivity has been severely disrupted since early January amid anti-regime protests, with authorities citing disinformation concerns and critics alleging censorship. Iranians have had meaningful in…
https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2026/05/07…
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“Saeid Dahghan... is the founder of the legal professional collective 1Kalameh Legal Network”
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“Narges Mohammadi... recently suffered a heart attack.”
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“Mohammadi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was recently transferred to a clinic in Tehran after being granted a prison sentence suspension on bail.”
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“Shortly after the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), for example, thousands of political prisoners were executed.”
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