Three prisoners executed in Hamedan and Kermanshah Prisons

Hengaw – Saturday, July 26, 2025
 
Death sentence of three prisoners in separate incidents carried out at Hamedan Central Prison and Kermanshah’s Dizelabad Prison. The executions have not been reported by state-affiliated media.

According to information obtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, at dawn on Wednesday, July 23, two prisoners, Jabbar Alishahi, 30, a Lor man from Khorramabad, and Ashkan Mahdipanah from Hamedan, were executed at Hamedan Central Prison. Both men had been arrested four years earlier in unrelated cases on drug-related charges and sentenced to death by the Iranian judiciary.

A day earlier, at dawn on Tuesday, July 22, authorities at Dizelabad Prison in Kermanshah executed Morteza Khorrami, a Kurdish prisoner from Kermanshah. Khorrami had been arrested two years ago on charges of premeditated murder of a military officer and was later sentenced to death.

The judiciary and state-run media have not released any information regarding these executions.