Iran executes three prisoners in Tabriz and Zanjan prisons

Hengaw – Monday, August 10, 2026

Iranian authorities executed at least three prisoners, including two Turks, identified as Amrollah Dousti, Hojjat Khayat, and Yousef Bagheri, in Tabriz and Zanjan Central Prisons. Dousti and Khayat were executed on drug-related charges, while Bagheri was executed for “premeditated murder.”

According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Dousti, 40, from Bandar Abbas and a father of two, and Khayat, 51, from Tabriz and a father of three, were executed in Tabriz Central Prison on Sunday, August 9, 2026.

Informed sources told Hengaw that Dousti and Khayat had been arrested on drug-related charges two and four years earlier, respectively, and subsequently sentenced to death by the Iranian judiciary.

Separately, Bagheri, 30, from Zanjan, was executed in Zanjan Central Prison on Saturday, August 8. He had been arrested three years earlier on a charge of “premeditated murder” and sentenced to death.

Neither Iranian state media nor judiciary-affiliated outlets have reported the three executions.