Hengaw report on the execution of Natanz nuclear facilities engineer: Javad Naeimi secretly executed in Qom Prison

Hengaw – Wednesday, October 22, 2025

The Hengaw Organization for Human Rights has verified that the individual recently executed in Qom on charges of “espionage for Israel” was Javad Naeimi, a nuclear engineer employed at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facilities.

According to information obtained by Hengaw, at dawn on Saturday, October 18, 2025, the death sentence of Javad Naeimi, a resident of Qom and a specialist working at the Natanz nuclear site, was carried out in Qom Central Prison in complete secrecy.

Earlier this week, Iranian state media—including Mizan News Agency, affiliated with the judiciary—had reported the execution of an unnamed individual accused of “spying for Israel,” without revealing their identity. Follow-up investigations have confirmed that the executed prisoner was Engineer Javad Naeimi, who had been arrested by security forces in February 2024 and later sentenced to death following an opaque and flawed judicial process.

Hengaw has learned that Naeimi was subjected to severe torture and coerced into making self-incriminating confessions during interrogation. The organization earlier noted that references in state media to his “confession and admission of sharing classified information” were consistent with a pattern of forced confessions extracted under torture by Iranian security agencies.

State-affiliated outlets claimed that Naeimi had established contact with Israeli intelligence services “for personal and professional reasons.”

His body was buried on Tuesday, October 21, 2025, in Behesht-e Masoumeh Cemetery in Qom under tight security and a complete media blackout, while security officials threatened his family against publicizing the case.