Twelve prisoners executed in a single day in Ghezel Hesar and Karaj Central prisons
Hengaw – Friday, October 10, 2025
The death sentences of twelve prisoners, including three Kurdish men, were carried out in Ghezel Hesar and Karaj Central prisons. The executed individuals were identified as Mobin Sarvari, Mahmoud Valiollahi, Ahmad Mohammadi, Sina Mohammadi, Hamzeh Saki, Hassan Zare, Pedram (surname unknown), Milad Yari, Arman Kakavand, Bahman Shah-Hosseini, Ali Saeedzadeh-Fahimi, and Masoud Maleki. All had been sentenced to death by the judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran on charges of “premeditated murder” or “drug-related offenses.”
According to information received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, seven prisoners including Yari and Kakavand, both 32-year-old Kurdish men from Nourabad in Lorestan Province, as well as Shah-Hosseini, Saeedzadeh-Fahimi, Ahmad Mohammadi, Saki, and Zare, were executed at dawn on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj.
Sources told Hengaw that Shah-Hosseini, Saeedzadeh-Fahimi, Ahmad Mohammadi, Saki, and Zare had been convicted on drug-related charges, while Yari and Kakavand were arrested six years ago in a joint case on similar charges and later sentenced to death.
On the same day, four other prisoners identified as Sarvari, 27, a Kurdish man from Ilam; Valiollahi, 41, a Lor man from Nahavand, Hamadan Province, and father of three; Sina Mohammadi from Tehran; and Pedram (surname unknown), were executed in Karaj Central Prison. According to informed sources, Pedram, Sarvari, and Sina Mohammadi had been convicted of premeditated murder, while Valiollahi was arrested four years ago on charges of killing his wife and later sentenced to death.
Also on the same day, the death sentence of a Baloch prisoner identified as Maleki (Malekzehi), 33, originally from Baluchestan and a resident of Shahreza in Isfahan Province, was carried out in Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan. He had been arrested seven years earlier on drug-related charges and sentenced to death.
Iranian state media have so far acknowledged the execution of only five of these prisoners, without disclosing their identities.
