Execution of four prisoners, including Afghan national, carried out across Iran

Hengaw - Wednesday, May 21, 2025
 
The Islamic Republic of Iran has carried out the execution of four prisoners, including Abduljabbar Jamalzi, an Afghan national, as well as Ahmad Bani Asad, Aleem Barahoee, and Jahanshah Afshari. The executions took place in Bandar Abbas, Borazjan, and Ghezel Hesar prisons, respectively. All  men  had been sentenced to death on charges of either premeditated murder or drug-related offenses.
 
According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the executions of Jahanshah Afshari, a resident of Tehran, and Aleem Barahoee, a 67-year-old from Zahedan, were carried out at dawn on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. Afshari had been convicted of premeditated murder, while Barahoee was sentenced to death for narcotics-related crimes.
 
Earlier, on Monday, May 19, the execution of Abduljabbar Jamalzi was carried out in Bandar Abbas Central Prison. Jamalzi, a married man from the Bakwa district of Afghanistan’s Farah Province, had been convicted on drug-related charges.
 
Additionally, on Saturday, May 17, authorities executed Ahmad Bani Asad, an Arab prisoner, in Borazjan Central Prison, located in Iran’s Bushehr Province. He, too, had been convicted of drug offenses.
 
No official statements or media coverage of these executions have been released by Iranian state media or judiciary-affiliated outlets.