Eight prisoners, including one woman, executed in Isfahan, Dezful, and Qom prisons

Hengaw – Monday, October 13, 2025

Eight prisoners, including a woman, were executed in recent days in the prisons of Isfahan, Dezful, and Qom. They were identified as Zeynab Khodabandeh, Sobhan Safinezhad, Hamid Abdali, Jafar Reghbati, Farzad Javanmiri, Behnam Saberi, Younes Mardani, and Farhad Faraji. All had previously been sentenced to death on charges of “premeditated murder” or “drug-related offenses.”

According to information obtained by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Zeynab Khodabandeh and Sobhan Safinezhad, both convicted on “drug-related charges,” were executed at Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan on Monday, October 13, 2025.

Hamid Abdali, a Lor man from Dezful who had been sentenced to death for “premeditated murder,” was executed in Dezful Prison, Khuzestan Province, on Sunday, October 12.

Jafar Reghbati from Nazarabad (Karaj), Farzad Javanmiri from Qom, and Behnam Saberi, 28, from Pakdasht (Tehran Province), were executed in Qom Central Prison on Tuesday, October 7. Reghbati had been on death row for three years, Javanmiri for five, and Saberi for three, all convicted on “drug-related charges” by the judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Younes Mardani, 25, and Farhad Faraji, 27 — two cousins from Shahin Shahr, Isfahan — were executed in Isfahan Central Prison (Dastgerd) on Tuesday, September 30. They had been arrested about four years earlier on charges of “murder” of a bus assistant during an altercation described as “honor-related.” Both were later sentenced to death. Mardani had been under psychiatric treatment for the past two years and had twice attempted suicide, both times unsuccessfully.

The executions of these eight prisoners have not been reported by state-controlled media, including outlets affiliated with Iran’s judiciary.