Two prisoners executed in Zahedan and Zanjan prisons

Hengaw – Monday, August 17, 2026

Iranian authorities have executed Mohammad Afrookhteh, a Baloch prisoner from Sib and Suran, and Mohammad Yousefi Azad, from Eslamshahr, in separate cases at Zahedan and Zanjan central prisons.

According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Mohammad (Cheragh) Afrookhteh, 30, was executed at Zahedan Central Prison in the early hours of Sunday, August 16, 2026.

Informed sources said Afrookhteh had been arrested three years earlier on charges of “premeditated murder” and was subsequently sentenced to death.

Mohammad Yousefi Azad, 25, from Eslamshahr in Tehran Province, was executed at Zanjan Central Prison in the early hours of Thursday, July 30, 2026, on drug-related charges.

He had been arrested three years earlier on the same charges and was subsequently sentenced to death.

Neither execution has been announced by Iranian state media or outlets affiliated with the judiciary.