Iran Human Rights (IHR), a Norway-based human rights organization, on Monday, July 6, expressed concern over the growing wave of executions of political prisoners in recent months and stressed that halting executions must be one of the main conditions of any agreement with the Iranian regime.
In a report, the human rights organization warned of an escalation in executions in Iran in the coming months and said officials of the Iranian regime have accelerated the execution of prisoners, particularly political activists, following the ceasefire with the United States and Israel. According to the report, at least 101 Iranians were executed in June alone.
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At the same time, HRANA News Agency, an Iranian human rights news outlet, reported that Kamal Khan-Babaei, who was arrested during the January 2026 protests and is being held in Choobindar Prison in Qazvin, has been sentenced to death by Branch One of the Qazvin Revolutionary Court on the charge of “moharebeh” (“waging war against God”).
According to HRANA, one of the allegations cited against Mr. Khan-Babaei was “breaking two surveillance cameras.”
Kamal Khan-Babaei was arrested on January 15 and spent 10 days in a detention center operated by Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence, where he was interrogated and beaten in an effort to extract a forced confession.
The Human Rights Center in Iran also reported that Mohammad Moayedi-Shakib, a political prisoner held in Tehran’s Evin Prison who suffers from multiple medical conditions, including heart disease, a prostate disorder, and cervical and lumbar disc problems, began a hunger strike on Sunday, July 5, to protest the continued denial of transfer to medical facilities outside the prison.
According to the human rights organization, after beginning his hunger strike, the political prisoner was threatened by the prison warden that he would be transferred to Razi Psychiatric Hospital if he continued his protest.
Human rights sources also expressed concern over the life-threatening condition and deteriorating health of Rezvaneh Sadeghi, who was arrested during the January protests. According to these sources, shotgun pellets that remain lodged in the political prisoner’s head have shifted over time, with one pellet moving beneath her eye and close to the optic nerve.
The movement of the pellet has caused blood clotting, severe swelling extending from the corner of her eye to above her eyebrow, persistent pain, and significant vision loss. It is reported that despite warnings from a prison guard, medical staff at Evin Prison have deemed her condition normal and are preventing Ms. Sadeghi from being transferred to a hospital.
Meanwhile, in a separate report, the Human Rights Center in Iran said that Rashed Emami, an artist from Paveh and one of those arrested during the 2022 protests, was violently arrested on Monday, July 6, along with his wife, Sheler Modirzadeh, by regime forces and taken to an undisclosed location. No reliable information is currently available regarding the reasons for their arrest, the charges against them, their place of detention, or their whereabouts.
