Iran | Executions in Karaj, Birjand, Tabriz, Kerman, Gorgan

Iranian authorities have executed a prisoner identified as Eghbal Arghandeh in Karaj Central Prison. He had previously been sentenced to death on charges of “premeditated murder.”

According to information obtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the execution of 30-year-old Eghbal Arghandeh was carried out at dawn on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, in Karaj Central Prison.

Sources told Hengaw that Arghandeh had been arrested approximately six years ago in connection with a fatal street altercation and was later sentenced to death by the Iranian judiciary.

Iranian state media, particularly outlets affiliated with the judiciary, have not officially announced the execution.

Executions in Birjand, Tabriz, Kerman and Gorgan

Iranian authorities have executed five prisoners, including three Baloch prisoners identified as Younes Zirakari, Heydar Bamari (Moradkhani), Mehdi Bamari (Moradkhani), as well as Naser Langarani and Omid Sadeghi Souri, in prisons across Birjand, Tabriz, Kerman and Gorgan.

The prisoners had previously been sentenced to death on charges related to drug offenses and premeditated murder.

According to information obtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the executions of Heydar Bamari (Moradkhani) and Mehdi Bamari (Moradkhani), two 27-year-old Baloch prisoners from Delgan in Sistan and Baluchestan province, were carried out at dawn on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, in Kerman Central Prison.

The two men had been arrested three years ago in a joint case in Kahnooj on drug-related charges and were later sentenced to death by the Iranian judiciary.

In a separate case, the execution of Younes Brahoui (Zirakari), a 29-year-old married man from Zahedan, was carried out at dawn on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Birjand Prison. He had also been sentenced to death on drug-related charges.

On the same day, the execution of Naser Langarani, a 42-year-old father of one, was carried out in Gorgan Central Prison. He had been arrested around three years ago on charges of premeditated murder and later sentenced to death.

Additionally, Omid Sadeghi Souri, a 26-year-old Turkish prisoner, was executed in Tabriz Central Prison at dawn on Sunday, May 10, 2026.

Sadeghi Souri had been arrested four years earlier on charges of premeditated murder following a street altercation and was later sentenced to death.

Iran executes Mohammad Abbasi amid accelerating wave of wartime executions

Iranian authorities have executed Mohammad Abbasi, a detainee arrested during protests earlier this year, at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj amid a rapidly escalating wave of executions carried out under wartime conditions.

According to information obtained by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Abbasi, a resident of Malard in Tehran Province, was secretly executed at dawn on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj. He had been arrested alongside his daughter during protests earlier this year. Mizan News Agency, the official media outlet of Iran’s judiciary, later confirmed the execution.

Abbasi was arrested in connection with the killing of a police officer identified as Shahin Dehghani Kakavandi during protests in Malard. He was subsequently sentenced to death on charges of “waging war against God” (moharebeh) by Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Abolghasem Salavati.

Branch 39 of Iran’s Supreme Court upheld the sentence while preventing independent lawyers, including Ali Sharifzadeh Ardakani, from participating in the proceedings under provisions tied to Article 48 of the Criminal Procedure Code. The case was reviewed solely in the presence of a court-appointed lawyer lacking the necessary independence.

In the same case, Fatemeh Abbasi, Mohammad Abbasi’s daughter, was sentenced to 25 years of discretionary imprisonment and is currently being held in the women’s ward of Evin Prison, a measure that reflects the systematic retaliation and increased pressure exerted by security institutions against the families of protesters.

Hengaw Organization for Human Rights warns that since the outbreak of military conflict between Iran, Israel, and the United States, the Islamic Republic has sharply accelerated its use of executions. With the execution of Mohammad Abbasi, at least 32 prisoners facing political and security-related charges have been executed during this period.

Source: hengaw.net, Staff, May 13-15, 2026

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