Five prisoners, including three Turks, executed in Hamedan

Hengaw – Thursday, June 18, 2026

Iranian authorities executed five prisoners, including three Turkish prisoners and one Kurdish prisoner, in Hamedan Central Prison (Alvand Prison) over a ten-day period in June. The prisoners had been convicted on charges of "premeditated murder" and "drug-related offenses."

According to information received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the executions of Ramin Bagheri, a 27-year-old Turkish prisoner from Hamedan, Alireza Maleki, a 29-year-old Kurdish prisoner from Songhor and Koliai, and Farzad Bahrami, a 36-year-old prisoner from Hamedan, were carried out in the early hours of Wednesday, June 17, 2026, at Hamedan Central Prison.

Sources familiar with the cases stated that Bagheri had spent six years in prison, while Maleki and Bahrami had each spent four years in custody after being arrested and sentenced to death on charges of "premeditated murder."

Meanwhile, the executions of two Turkish prisoners from Zanjan, Samad Naderpour, 30, and Hossein Shahamat, 35, were secretly carried out in the same prison in the early hours of Saturday, June 6, 2026. Both had been arrested two years earlier and were sentenced to death on charges of "drug-related offenses."

None of these five executions have been announced by state media or official sources affiliated with the Iranian Judiciary.