Mohammad Mehdi Hajmohammadi says he takes responsibility for the 'unacceptable behaviors' seen in leaked videos of the prison

Hamid Noury charged with murder for role in ordering mass executions of political dissidents in 1988, a purge Iran's new leader is claimed to have led

Javaid Rehman urges probe into mass state-ordered executions in 1988, when newly elected Iran leader was Tehran deputy prosecutor

Campaigners say Ebrahim Raisi should stand trial rather than lead country; Amnesty says he was member of the Tehran 'death commission' that secretly killed thousands

Amnesty says that while numbers dropped due to pandemic, figures for Iran, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia show region is 'truly out of sync with the rest of the world'

Report by activists says Islamic Republic using death penalty less in recent years, but still leads world in per capita executions, usually after torture

Zahra Ismaili was convicted of killing her husband; her lawyer says he was abusive and she acted in self-defense

Ruhollah Zam, hanged last year for 'sowing corruption' and allegedly spying for France and Israel, was tricked into traveling to Iraq and detained by Revolutionary Guard

Islamic Republic executes man convicted of fatal stabbing in a brawl when he was just 16, fourth juvenile offender to be put to death in country this year

Ahmadreza Djalali, accused of spying for Israel, 'at imminent risk of execution,' rights group says, as his spouse pleads for international intervention