Sohrab Hasankhani arrested to serve prison sentence, transferred to Karaj Central Prison

Hengaw – Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Sohrab Hasankhani, one of the individuals arrested during protests related to the Ekbatan Town case, has been taken into custody to begin serving his prison sentence and corporal punishment sentence.

According to information obtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Hasankhani was arrested on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, for the enforcement of his sentence and transferred to Karaj Central Prison.

Hasankhani had previously been sentenced by the Tehran Province Court of Appeals in November 2025 to eight months in prison and 40 lashes on charges of “disrupting public order and peace,” as well as two years in prison and a fine of 500 million rials (50 million tomans) on charges of “spreading falsehoods.” Under Iran’s sentencing rules for multiple convictions, only the most severe sentence is enforceable.

Hasankhani was arrested in December 2024 alongside several other civil activists, including Masoud Vazifeh, Sina Maleki and Mojtaba Ebrahimi, during a protest sit-in against death sentences issued for defendants in the case known as the “Ekbatan Boys.” He was later released from Evin Prison on bail on December 30, 2024.

The initial verdict against Hasankhani and the other defendants was issued in April 2025 by Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Iman Afshari, and was later upheld on appeal.