Iran has executed at least 1,000 people so far in 2025, the highest such figure in some three decades, an NGO said Tuesday, denouncing the "mass killing campaign" in prisons as a crime against humanity. Responding to the report, the UN rights office in Geneva described the current number of executions in Iran as "staggering". 'Crime against humanity'Raphael Chenuil Hazan, director of Paris-based campaign group Together Against the Death Penalty, said the figures confirmed his group's verdict that Iran's use of the death penalty can be classified as "a crime against humanity". "The international community must consider that Iran as a state commits a crime against humanity in the mass and systematic use of the death penalty," he told AFP. Iran has executed ten people this year on charges of spying for Israel, according to IHR, the majority after the conflict with Israel began.