Five executions carried out in prisons across Iran

Hengaw – Thursday, July 31, 2025

The death sentences of five prisoners—including Kurdish, Turkish, and Baloch inmates—were carried out in the prisons of Ilam, Qom, Shiraz, Tabriz, and Sari. The executed individuals were Mohammad Amini, Abdulzaher Faghirdadi, Reza Salehi, Sadegh Allahverdi, and Mohammad Shabestan. They had previously been convicted of charges including drug-related offenses and premeditated murder.

According to reports received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, at dawn on Wednesday, July 30, 2025, the execution of Amini, a Kurdish man from Ilam, was carried out at the city’s Central Prison. He had been arrested two years earlier on charges of premeditated murder and sentenced to death.

On the same day, Faghirdadi (also known as Davoudi), a 53-year-old Baloch man from the village of Ladiz in Mirjaveh County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, was executed in Qom Central Prison. He had been arrested four years ago on drug-related charges and sentenced to death by the Islamic Republic’s judiciary. Despite suffering from a serious illness, he had been transferred to solitary confinement on Monday, July 28, ahead of his execution.

Also on Wednesday, Salehi, who had been detained on murder charges, was executed at Adelabad Prison in Shiraz.

At dawn on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, Shabestan, a 43-year-old man from Sari and father of two, was executed at Sari Central Prison. He had been arrested five years ago for premeditated murder during a tribal conflict and was later sentenced to death.

Furthermore, at dawn on Monday, July 28, 2025, Allahverdi, a 53-year-old Turkish man from Tabriz, was executed at Tabriz Central Prison. He had been arrested four years earlier on charges related to drug offenses.

None of these executions have been announced by state media, including outlets affiliated with Iran’s judiciary.