Five prisoners, including three Afghan nationals, executed in Shiraz and Isfahan prisons

Hengaw – Wednesday, October 22, 2025

The death sentences of five prisoners, including three Afghan nationals, were carried out in the central prisons of Shiraz and Isfahan. All had been convicted on drug-related charges.

According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, at dawn on Wednesday, October 22, 2025, two prisoners — Habib Haqshenas, aged 38, a father of three from Isfahan, and an Afghan national identified only by his first name, Bashir — were executed in Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan.

Sources informed Hengaw that both had been arrested several years ago in separate cases on drug-related charges and later sentenced to death by the Iranian judiciary.

Similarly, at dawn on Tuesday, October 21, 2025, three other prisoners were executed in Adelabad Prison in Shiraz: Amir Hamzeh Shahouzehi, a Baloch man from Zahedan; and two Afghan nationals, Serajaddin Abi-Talebi, aged 36 and from Tarkhoj, Afghanistan, and Mohammad Shams, aged 26 and from Jalalabad.

According to sources, Shahouzehi had been arrested five years ago, Abi-Talebi two years ago, and Shams three years ago, all on drug-related charges, before being sentenced to death in separate cases.

Iranian state media and judiciary-affiliated outlets have not announced the executions.