Iran executes 12 prisoners across multiple provinces
Hengaw – Sunday, December 7, 2025
Iran has executed twelve prisoners across facilities in Khorramabad, Aligudarz, Saveh, Qom, Semnan, Arak, Nishapur, Bandar Abbas, Gorgan, Qazvin, and Sanandaj. The prisoners — Yavar Farhadi, Golmirza Nejati, Ali Ashraf Khodaei, Khosro Nemati, Milad Mirzakhani, Nouraddin Asgari, Hassan Bahmani, Masoud Ehsani, Abbas Hosseini, Alimorad Ansari, Hossein Kochar’i, and Amin Panahizadeh — had been convicted on charges of premeditated murder or drug-related offenses.
According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the executions of Yavar Farhadi, a Lor man from Lorestan; Golmirza Nejati, a Lor man from Aligudarz; and Ali Ashraf Khodaei, all convicted of premeditated murder, were carried out at dawn on Sunday, December 7, 2025, in the prisons of Khorramabad, Aligudarz, and Saveh.
On the same day, the death sentences of three prisoners convicted on drug-related charges — Khosro Nemati, Milad Mirzakhani, and Nouraddin Asgari — were carried out in the prisons of Qom, Semnan, and Arak.
Further executions took place in Nishapur, Bandar Abbas, and Gorgan, where Hassan Bahmani, 28; Masoud Ehsani; and Abbas Hosseini were put to death. According to informed sources, Bahmani had been arrested three years earlier in connection with a so-called “honor killing,” Ehsani had been convicted of murder, and Hosseini had been sentenced to death on drug-related charges.
Separately, at dawn on Saturday, December 6, 2025, Alimorad Ansari, 51, and Hossein Kochar’i, both from Karaj, were executed in Qazvin Prison, while Amin Panahizadeh, a Kurdish prisoner from Kermanshah (Kermashan), was executed in Sanandaj Central Prison. Ansari and Kochar’i had been arrested about three years earlier in a joint case involving drug transportation, while Panahizadeh had been convicted of premeditated murder.
None of the executions have been announced by Iranian state media or judiciary-affiliated outlets.
