AP contributed: 

Regime in Iran is carrying out executions at “an alarming rate,” the United Nations chief said in a Wednesday report.

In the first seven months of the year, the country executed at least 419 people, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the U.N. General Assembly, according to The Associated Press. This is an increase of 30 percent from the same period in 2022.

Guterres said seven men were killed in relation to or for participating in nationwide protests sparked by the 2022 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini — who was killed for violating regime's dress code with a loose headscarf.

He said the U.N. human rights office found that the executions by the regime in Iran “consistently indicated that the judicial proceedings did not fulfill the requirements for due process and a fair trial under international human rights law.”

Guterres said the men were denied access to adequate and timely legal representation and were forced into confessing, which “may have been obtained as a result of torture,” the AP reported.

An estimated 20,000 individuals were arrested for participating in the nationwide protests in the last year, many of them children, the U.N. chief said.

The secretary-general expressed concern about excessive use of force against protestors and beatings and psychological and sexual abuse once they were put in detention.

He urged the regime in Iran to halt all executions and release all people detained arbitrarily.