Iran executes two more political prisoners in secret
Hengaw – Sunday, April 5, 2026
Iranian authorities have secretly executed two political prisoners, Mohammadamin Biglari and Shahin Vahedparast Kalour, who had been detained during the December protests last year, in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj. The executions are part of a broader wave of executions of political prisoners coinciding with the war between Iran, the United States, and Israel.
According to data compiled by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, at least 13 political prisoners, including six detainees from the December protests, have been executed in Iran since the start of the recent war.
Information received by Hengaw shows that the executions were carried out at dawn on Sunday, April 5, 2026, without the prisoners being granted a final visit with their families.
Mohammadamin Biglari, a 19-year-old computer science student, and Shahin Vahedparast Kalour, 30, were arrested along with five others, Shahab Zahdi, Abolfazl Salehi Siavoshani, Amirhossein Hatami, Yaser Rajaeifar, and Ali Fahim, on Thursday, January 8, 2026, during the crackdown on protesters in Tehran near Basij Base No. 185 Namjoo.
They were tried only one month after their arrest by Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Abolghasem Salavati, on charges including “enmity against God (moharebeh), corruption on earth, arson of public facilities, and assembly and collusion to commit crimes against national security,” and were sentenced to death.
Another defendant in the same case, Amirhossein Hatami, 19, had previously been secretly executed in the same prison on Thursday, April 2, 2026.
The execution of detainees from the December protests only three months after their arrest constitutes a serious violation of the right to a fair trial and international human rights standards. The speed and lack of transparency in this case indicate the use of the death penalty as a tool of political retaliation amid regional tensions and the ongoing war.
Executions carried out without due process and without allowing defendants proper legal defense constitute arbitrary deprivation of life and a violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Hengaw Organization for Human Rights strongly condemns the rushed execution of these political prisoners and warns of the imminent risk of execution for four other defendants in the same case who are currently being held in solitary confinement.
Hengaw previously reported, quoting Mohammadamin Biglari’s lawyer Hassan Aghakhani, that he and another lawyer had formally entered the case as defense attorneys, but the court refused to allow them access to the case file or the opportunity to present a defense. The court-appointed lawyer had told the family that Biglari had “confessed,” but the content of this confession remains unclear, and the validity of the confession of this 19-year-old is seriously in doubt.
Mohammadamin Biglari’s father, despite poor physical condition, searched among the bodies of killed protesters in Kahrizak for his son. Only three weeks later did he learn through released prisoners from Ghezel Hesar Prison that his son had been arrested. Biglari had been working two jobs to support himself financially.
