Two prisoners executed in Mashhad and Zahedan prisons

Hengaw – Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Iranian authorities executed two prisoners, including a Baloch man, at Zahedan and Mashhad prisons on Wednesday, July 22, 2026. Yasin Hashemzehi and Ali Morshed had been sentenced to death in separate cases on charges of "premeditated murder."

According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Yasin Hashemzehi (Valani), a 26-year-old Baloch man from the village of Sargaz in Taftan County, was executed at Zahedan Central Prison in the early hours of Wednesday, July 22, 2026.

He had been arrested five years earlier and sentenced to death by the Iranian judiciary on a charge of "premeditated murder."

Ali Morshed was executed later the same day at Mashhad Central Prison after being sentenced to death in a separate murder case.

Iranian state media, including outlets affiliated with the judiciary, had not reported the executions.