Eight more prisoners executed across Iran

Hengaw – Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Iranian authorities have executed eight prisoners, including two Arab men, in the prisons of Ilam, Kerman, Karaj, Aligudarz, Ahvaz, Qazvin, and Khaf. Those executed were identified as Yaqub Dachi, Nezam Saeedi, Ali Kazemian, Soroush Haqpanah, Mehdi Moridi, Omid Beqlani, Shahriar Nami, and Shayan Nadi. They had all been convicted on charges of “premeditated murder” and “drug-related offences.”

Based on information obtained by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Dachi, a 28-year-old Arab man from Dasht Abbas in Ilam Province, was executed in Ilam Central Prison on Wednesday evening, November 12, 2025. He had been arrested three years earlier on a charge of “premeditated murder” and sentenced to death. He was transferred to solitary confinement one day before the execution.

Saeedi was executed in Kerman Central Prison on the same day after being sentenced to death for “premeditated murder.”

Kazemian and Haqpanah were executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj after being convicted of “premeditated murder.” Both men had been sentenced to death by the Iranian judiciary.

Moridi, a Lor prisoner convicted of “premeditated murder,” was executed in Aligudarz Prison in Lorestan Province.

Beqlani, an Arab prisoner, was executed in Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz after being convicted of “premeditated murder.”

Nami was executed in Khaf Prison in Razavi Khorasan Province after being convicted of “premeditated murder.”

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