Biography
Donna M Hughes is the Editor-in-Chief of Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence. She is a Professor and Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson Endowed Chair, emerita, from the University of Rhode Island, USA
Abstract
An exhibition and protest of executions in Iran was held in Washington, D.C. in June 2025. Portraits of 2000 men and women who were killed or executed in Iran since the 1980s were displayed on the National Mall in front of the Capitol. The Iranian Resistance estimates that 30,000 activists were massacred in one period in 1988. Executions of prisoners have continued steadily, making Iran the world’s leading executioner of men and women. In recent years, there has been a sharp escalation in the number of executions of prisoners. A United Nations Special Rapporteur reported that over 800 persons were executed in 2024. The Iranian regime uses public executions to terrorize the Iranian population and maintain control. The exhibition and protest represented activists from the 1988 massacre and the protests of 2019 and 2022 (the Woman, Life, Freedom movement). The Iranian American Community that sponsored the exhibition supports the pro-democracy, human rights agenda of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
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Recommended Citation
Hughes, Donna M. (2025) "An Exhibition and Protest of Executions in Iran," Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence: Vol. 10: Iss. 3, Article 5. https://doi.org/10.23860/dignity.2025.10.03.05
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