Two prisoners executed in Mahshahr and Kermanshah prisons

Hengaw – Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Iranian authorities have executed at least two prisoners, including a Kurdish man identified as Abbas Zarei in Kermanshah Central Prison (Dizel Abad Prison) and an Arab prisoner identified as Ebrahim Modatzadeh in Mahshahr Central Prison. Both had previously been sentenced to death on charges of premeditated murder.

According to information obtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Abbas Zarei was executed at dawn on Tuesday, June 9, 2026, in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah.

Zarei was married and a resident of the village of Sarin in the Firouzabad district of Kermanshah County (Kermashan). He had previously been arrested on charges of premeditated murder and was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) by the Iranian judiciary.

In a separate case, Ebrahim Modatzadeh, an Arab prisoner, was executed at dawn on Monday, June 8, 2026, in Mahshahr Central Prison in Khuzestan Province. He had also been convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to death under qisas provisions.

The executions of Abbas Zarei and Ebrahim Modatzadeh have not been announced by Iranian state media or official sources affiliated with the judiciary.