Daughter of Iranian political prisoner Mehdi Hassani: My father could be executed at any moment
Maryam Hassani, the daughter of Mohammad Hassani, a political prisoner sentenced to death, has announced that the Supreme Court has rejected her father’s request for a retrial. On Sunday, February 23, she wrote on X: “According to my father’s lawyer, his retrial request has been rejected, and his execution could be carried out at any moment.”
طبق اطلاعیه وکیل :
اعاده دادرسی پدرم رد شده و هر لحظه ممکنه حکم اعدام اجرا بشه .#مهدی_حسنی #نه_به_اعدام pic.twitter.com/NlGyaW8cvV— maryam hasani (@mery_h_pv) February 23, 2025
Mehdi Hassani’s execution had previously been halted after the Supreme Court accepted his lawyer’s request for a retrial.
Mr. Hassani, born in 1976, is married and the father of two children. He was arrested on September 9, 2022, in Zanjan while attempting to leave the country and was subsequently transferred to Evin Prison.
He, along with another prisoner named Behrouz Ehsani, was sentenced to death in mid-September 2024 by Branch 26 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Iman Afshari. They were charged with “rebellion (Baghi), waging war against God (Moharebeh), and corruption on earth (Efsad fil-Arz).”
Other charges against them include “gathering classified information, conspiracy and collusion against national security, and membership” in the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
