At least 11 prisoners executed in prisons across Iran

Hengaw — Sunday, December 14, 2025

At least 11 prisoners, including two Lor and one Turk, were executed recently in multiple prisons across Iran.

According to information received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the executions were carried out in the prisons of Qazvin, Ardabil, Dezful, Qom, Semnan, Arak, Karaj and Dorud. Those executed were Sadegh Abdi, Abolfazl Dana, Farhad Abdoli, Yaser Saki-zadeh, Mohammadamin Bakhtiari, Mohammad Dinari, Ehsan Yari, Mohammad Karimi, Reza Abbasian, Khalil Fadaei and Salim Afrashteh. They had previously been sentenced to death on charges of “intentional murder” or charges related to drug-related offences by the judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The death sentences of Abdi, from Qazvin, Dana, a Turk from Ardabil, and Abdoli, a Lor from Dezful in Khuzestan Province, were carried out in the early hours of Sunday, December 14, 2025, in Qazvin, Ardabil and Dezful prisons on charges of intentional murder.

On the same day, Saki-zadeh, Bakhtiari and Dinari were executed on drug-related charges in Qom, Semnan and Arak prisons. The death sentences of Yari and Karimi, who had also been convicted on drug-related charges, were carried out in Karaj Central Prison.

The executions of Abbasian, 46, from Semnan, and Fadaei, 28, from Shahroud, were carried out in Semnan Central Prison in the early hours of Wednesday, December 10, 2025. Abbasian had been detained for three years and Fadaei for five years in separate cases on charges of intentional murder before being sentenced to death.

On the same day, Afrashteh, a 33-year-old Lor prisoner from Dorud in Lorestan Province, was also executed after being detained for four years on a murder charge.

These executions have not been announced by state media, particularly outlets affiliated with the judiciary.