According to a report by HRANA (Human Rights Activists News Agency), at least 56 prisoners across Iran’s prisons currently face execution sentences on political or security-related charges.
In a report published on Monday, July 21, HRANA stated that the largest number of these death sentences were issued by Tehran’s Revolutionary Courts. Branch 15 presided over by Abolghasem Salavati; Branch 26, led by Iman Afshari; and Branch 28, headed by Mohammadreza Amoozad, played prominent roles in handing down these rulings.
Fifteen of these prisoners are supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the largest opposition group to Iran’s regime.
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Multiple death sentences have also been issued against political and security prisoners in the cities of Urmia, Mashhad, Ahvaz, Rasht, Zahedan, and Mahshahr. These judicial branches have each condemned more than one political prisoner to death.
The primary charges against many of these prisoners include “armed rebellion” (baghi) and “enmity against God” (moharebeh). Several individuals, after having their verdicts overturned by the Supreme Court, were resentenced to death in parallel branches of the Revolutionary Courts.
HRANA, citing the accounts of several prisoners’ lawyers, emphasized that many of them were denied the right to a fair trial, were not granted access to independent legal counsel, and faced judicial proceedings that lacked transparency.
Names of political prisoners sentenced to death
Among the 56 political prisoners sentenced to death, Varisheh Moradi and Pakhshan Azizi are being held in Qarchak Prison in Varamin, and six people, including Akbar Daneshvar kar, Seyyed Mohammad Taghavi Sangdehi, Babak Alipour, Pouya Ghobadi Bistuni, and Vahid Bani-Amarian, are being held in the Greater Tehran Prison.
At least 14 political prisoners sentenced to death are being held in Ghezelhesar Prison in Karaj, including Seyyed Abolhassan Montazer, Eidou Shahbakhsh, Abdulghani Shahbakhsh, Abdolrahim Qanbarzehi Gorgij, Soleiman Shahbakhsh, Milad Armoon, Alireza Kafaei, Amir Mohammad Khosh-eghbal, Navid Najaran, Hossein Nemati, Alireza Barmarzpournak, Behrouz Ehsani, Mehdi Hassani, and Saman Mohammadi Khiyare.
Hatem Ozdemir, Mehrab Abdullahzadeh, Razgar Beigzadeh Babamiri, Pejman Soltani, Ali Ghasemi, Kaveh Salehi, and Tifour Salimi Babamiri are in Urmia Prison, and Yousef Ahmadi is in Sanandaj Prison.
Farshid Hassanzehi, Mohammad Zein al-Dini, and Adham Narouei are imprisoned in Zahedan Prison, and Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, Isa Eidmohammadi, and Mohammad Mehdi Soleimani are imprisoned in Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad.
Abbas Dris and Ali Obeidavi are being held in Mahshahr Prison, Ali Mojadam, Mohammadreza Moghadam, Moein Khanfari, and Adnan Ghobeishawi are being held in Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz, and Salem Mousavi, Malik Davarshenas (Mousavi), Habib Dris, Masoud Jamei, Alireza Mardasi, and Farshad Etemadifar are being held in Sheiban Prison in Ahvaz.
Three political prisoners, Manouchehr Fallah, Peyman Farah Avar, and Sharifeh Mohammadi, are also being held in Lakan Prison in Rasht.
HRANA wrote in its report that Ahmadreza Jalali, Amir Rahimpour, Roozbeh Vadi, Shahin Basami, and Afshin Ghorbani Mishaei are being held in detention centers with undisclosed locations.
At least 1,000 people were executed in Iran in 2024, a 25 percent increase over the previous year.
It is necessary for the international community, human rights organizations, and public opinion to actively pursue these cases and put pressure on the Iranian government to prevent the unjust execution of these sentences.
