Iran executes two Kurdish Prisoners convicted of murder at Shirvan prison

Hengaw – Monday, July 13, 2026

Iranian authorities executed two Kurdish men, Mohammad Imani and Asad Alijani, convicted of murder at Shirvan Central Prison in North Khorasan province.

According to information obtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Mohammad Imani, 27, and Asad Alijani, 33, both from Shirvan, were executed at dawn on July 12, 2026, at Shirvan Central Prison.

Sources familiar with the case said Imani was arrested in 2023 and Alijani in 2022 on separate murder charges. Both were later sentenced to death by Branch 1 of the North Khorasan Provincial Criminal Court under Iran’s qisas (retributive justice) laws.

Iranian state media and judicial authorities had not publicly announced the executions.