According to reports obtained by IHRNGO, the six Arab political prisoners were hanged in Ahvaz Sepidar Prison and Saman Mohammadi Khiareh, in Ghezel Hesar Prison.
Condemning the group hanging of political prisoners in the strongest terms, IHRNGO considers it as part of the Islamic Republic’s ongoing policy of fear and intimidation. The organisation had previously urged the United Nations Fact-Finding Committee to investigate the use of executions for political purposes, including their role in intimidating the public and the scale at which they are carried out, as potential crimes against humanity.
At least 1,042 people were executed in Iran in the first nine months of 2025. In September alone, IHRNGO has recorded 171 executions.
IHRNGO Director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said: “None of the seven prisoners executed today by the Islamic Republic were granted a fair trial. These executions are extrajudicial killings for which Ali Khamenei and other officials of the Islamic Republic must be held accountable. All of the prisoners belonged to Kurdish and Arab ethnic minorities, and the authorities tried to lower the political cost of their executions by labelling them as ‘separatists’ or accusing them of ‘collaboration with Israel.’ The people of Iran must raise the cost of such crimes by protesting and reacting more strongly to these executions.”
According to the judiciary’s Mizan News Agency, seven unnamed prisoners of conscience were hanged at unspecified locations on 4 October 2025. Saman Mohammadi Khiareh, a Kurdish minority sentenced to death on charges of “moharebeh (enmity against god) for membership of a dissident group and contact with foreign intelligence services” was one of those executed. He was likely executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison where he was held.
State-run media in Iran reported that he had been arrested on 30 November 2013, but many independent sources say his arrest took place in 2009, when he was 19 years old. At the time of his execution, he was 35 and had spent 16 years in prison.
According to reports, he was sentenced to death by Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by “Death Judge” Abolghassem Salavati, based on torture-tainted confessions.
Mizan’s report did not provide details of the charges or identities of the six other prisoners executed in Khuzestan Province the same day, referring to them only as “members of a separatist terrorist network linked to the Zionist regime”.
They have been identified as Arab political Prisoners Ali Mojadam, Mohammadreza Moghadam, Adnan Ghabishavi, Moein Khanfari, Habib Deris and Salem Mousavi.
An informed source told IHRNGO: “Until today, there was no mention of Israel in the charges against these six men. But state news agencies suddenly claimed that they were linked to Israel. These prisoners came from extremely poor families and were denied the right to choose their own lawyers. They were subjected to severe torture — at one point, weights were hung from Ali Mojadam’s testicles, and his wife was arrested, with interrogators threatening to rape her in front of him if he refused to confess.”
Ali Mojadam and Mohamadreza Moghaddam were charged as “leaders of the group’s domestic branch” and all men were sentenced to death for “membership in a baghy group, the armed branch of Harkat Alnezal al-Arabi in Iran with aim of armed rebellion against the Islamic Republic system by the Ahvaz Revolutionary Court in February 2023.
Their torture-tainted confessions were also aired prior to the commencement of legal proceedings and they were previously transferred to the gallows several times.
Source: Iran Human Rights, Staff, October 4, 2025
"One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed,
but by the punishments that the good have inflicted."
but by the punishments that the good have inflicted."
— Oscar Wilde
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