According to the Iran Human Rights Society, on the morning of Wednesday, April 30, the execution of 34-year-old political prisoner Mohsen Langar-Neshin was carried out at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj.
The website of Mizan News Agency, affiliated with the Iranian regime’s judiciary, confirmed the news and cited his charges as “enmity against God and corruption on earth through intelligence cooperation and espionage for Israel.”
On Saturday, April 26, Mohsen Langar-Neshin was transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for the execution. Prior to that, on February 15, he had been moved from Ward 4 of Evin Prison to Ghezel Hesar Prison.
He was arrested on July 3, 2023, by agents of Tehran’s Intelligence Department and was held in solitary confinement under harsh interrogations for 43 days. He was then transferred to Evin Prison, where he spent around 20 months of his total 665-day detention. A significant portion of this time was spent in Ward 209 of Evin, which is operated by the Ministry of Intelligence.
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He was reportedly a network security specialist who had previously collaborated with Imam Hossein University, a military-affiliated institution in Tehran. He later resigned from this position and worked in the private sector.
He was subjected to severe physical and psychological torture and forced to make false confessions in cases including the assassinations of Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam and Sayyad Khodaei—allegations that were denied by his family and lawyers.
The Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Abolqasem Salavati, sentenced him to death based on these coerced confessions. His three requests for retrial were rejected by Iran’s Supreme Court.
Langar-Neshin’s family gathered in front of Ghezel Hesar Prison the night before the execution but remained unaware of his fate until the sentence was carried out.
