Iran executes 10 prisoners across nine facilities
Hengaw — Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Iranian authorities have carried out the executions of ten prisoners in multiple prisons across the country, including facilities in Bushehr, Damghan, Chabahar, Kashmar, Sabzevar, Malayer, Shiraz, Mashhad, and Karaj. The prisoners had previously been sentenced to death on charges including “premeditated murder” and “drug-related crimes.”
According to information received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, four prisoners were executed at dawn on Wednesday, December 17, 2025. They were Mohammad Baghlani from Bushehr, Mehrshad Askari from Damghan, Sajad Farahmand, a Baloch man from Chabahar, and Yaroli Azimi from Kashmar in Razavi Khorasan Province. All four had been convicted of “premeditated murder” and were executed in Bushehr, Damghan, Chabahar, and Kashmar prisons respectively.
On the same day, four other prisoners were executed: Karamkhoda Yari from Sabzevar in Razavi Khorasan Province and Ebrahim Azizi, a Lor man from Malayer in Hamedan Province, both convicted of “premeditated murder,” as well as Majid Tajik and Parviz Shabani, who had been sentenced on charges related to “drug-related crimes.” These executions were carried out in Sabzevar Prison, Malayer Prison, Adelabad Prison in Shiraz, and Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad.
Two additional prisoners whose identities remain under investigation were executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj. According to Hamshahri newspaper, one of those executed was a 22-year-old man from Mazandaran Province who had been detained three years earlier following a residential theft and was later charged with “killing a police officer.” The other prisoner had been convicted on charges of “murder,” after reportedly claiming that he had invested borrowed money in the stock market and was unable to repay the debt.
State media, particularly outlets affiliated with the Iranian judiciary, have not officially announced these executions. The identities of only two of the executed prisoners have been publicly disclosed.
