Iran’s Supreme Court upholds death sentence of political prisoner Ehsan Faridi

Hengaw – Friday, October 10, 2025

The Supreme Court of Iran has upheld the death sentence of Ehsan Faridi, a 22-year-old Turkish student from Tabriz and political prisoner held in Tabriz Central Prison.

According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Faridi, a student of manufacturing engineering at Tabriz Technical College, had been sentenced to death by Branch 3 of the Tabriz Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Hassan Fathpour, on the charge of “corruption on earth” (efsad fel-arz).

Faridi was initially charged with “propaganda against the state.” He was released on bail but was rearrested about 40 days later after authorities escalated the charge to “corruption on earth.”

In a separate case stemming from the same file, Branch 2 of the Tabriz Criminal Court sentenced him in September 2025 to 18 months in prison.

He was first detained on June 18, 2024, after responding to a summons from the Tabriz Prosecutor’s Office, where he was arrested under an order issued by Branch 15 of the same office. Faridi had previously been detained by security forces in March 2024 and was released a month later after posting bail of 2.5 billion tomans.