Former political prisoner Amirhossein Moradi re-arrested following protest over execution

Hengaw - Sunday, June 1, 2025

Amirhossein Moradi, a 25-year-old former political prisoner from Tehran, has been arrested once again by agents of the Islamic Republic’s Ministry of Intelligence and taken to an undisclosed location. His arrest followed a peaceful protest he staged against the recent execution of political prisoner Mohsen Langarneshin.

According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Moradi was detained on Saturday, May 31, 2025, after holding a sit-in in front of Evin Prison. A source close to his family reported that he was apprehended on his way home following the protest and has since been held incommunicado, with no information available about his whereabouts.

The protest was in response to the execution of Mohsen Langarneshin, a 34-year-old political prisoner from Nowshahr. Langarneshin was executed at dawn on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj. He had been sentenced to death by Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Abolqasem Salavati, on charges of “espionage for Israel”—a conviction widely condemned as the result of an unfair judicial process.

Moradi himself was released from Evin Prison on March 19, 2024, under a furlough arrangement that marked the end of his most recent sentence. In that case, Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, led by Judge Iman Afshari, sentenced him to one year in prison on the charge of “propaganda against the state.” He began serving this sentence in July 2023.

This was not Moradi’s first experience with political imprisonment. He was initially arrested during the 2017 nationwide protests and later sentenced by Iran’s judiciary. After spending four years behind bars, he was released in 2021 upon completing his sentence.