Executions carried out for Akbar Shekhi, Mehdi Fathollahpour, and Hossein Bahari in Hamedan, Rasht, and Gorgan Prisons

Hengaw:Wednesday, April 23, 2025

The death sentences of three prisoners—Akbar Sheikhi, Mehdi Fathollahpour, and Hossein Bahari—were carried out in separate prisons across Iran over the past several days. The prisoners had been convicted of charges including premeditated murder and drug-related offenses.

According to a report received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Akbar Shekhi, 25, from Hamedan, was executed at dawn on Wednesday, April 23, in the central prison of Hamedan. He had been arrested five years earlier and sentenced to death by the judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran on charges related to drug trafficking.

Earlier in the week, on Monday, April 21, Mehdi Fathollahpour, a 30-year-old resident of Abyek in Qazvin Province, was executed in Rasht’s central prison, known as Lakan. He had been in detention for three years, also on charges related to drug crimes.

On Sunday, April 20, Hossein Bahari, 34, from a village near Gorgan, was executed in the city’s central prison. He had been convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to death following his arrest three years ago.

At the time of this report’s publication, none of the executions have been officially announced by Iranian state media or judiciary-affiliated outlets.