Ten prisoners executed in several Iranian prisons
Hengaw – Friday, December 26, 2025
Iran has executed ten prisoners in recent days across the prisons of Isfahan, Kashmar, Ardabil, Dezful, Quchan, Ahvaz, and Sanandaj. The prisoners, identified as Eskandar Bakhshoudeh, Yadollah Almasi, Mohammad Hassan Sharafi, Emad Asaf, Afshin Tusi, Habib Amouri, Naser Jannatpour, Taher Bastani, Rastin Karami, and Hesam Norouzi, had previously 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 obtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the executions began on December 24, 2025, when Bakhshoudeh, 32, from Tehran, and Almasi, from Kashmar in Razavi Khorasan Province, were executed in Isfahan Central Prison (Dastgerd) and Kashmar Prison. Both had spent several years in prison before being sentenced to death on murder charges.
On December 23, 2025, three additional prisoners — Mohammad Hassan Sharafi, a Turkish man from Ardabil; Emad Asaf, 38, a Lor man from Dezful in Khuzestan Province; and Afshin Tusi from Quchan in North Khorasan — were also executed on murder charges in the prisons of their respective cities.
Executions continued the same day in Ahvaz, where two Arab prisoners — 43-year-old Habib Amouri, father of one child, and 48-year-old Naser Jannatpour from Dasht-e Azadegan, father of two — were put to death in Sepidar Prison. Both had been imprisoned for several years prior to execution.
Another prisoner, identified as Taher Bastani, was executed on December 22, 2025, in Isfahan Central Prison, also on murder charges.
Earlier, on December 21, Kurdish prisoner Rastin Karami from Sanandaj was executed in Sanandaj Central Prison after four years of imprisonment on murder allegations. On December 20, 28-year-old Turkish prisoner Hesam Norouzi from Khalkhal was executed in Ardabil Central Prison after four years in detention.
Despite the number of executions carried out, none of these cases had been reported by Iranian state media or judiciary-affiliated outlets at the time of publication.
