Iran | Executions in Taybad, Semnan, Hamadan, Yasuj

Iranian authorities secretly executed at least five prisoners, including three Afghan nationals and one Baloch prisoner, at Taybad Central Prison in Razavi Khorasan province.

According to information obtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the executions were carried out at dawn on July 29, 2026. The three Afghan nationals were identified as Mullah Rabie Abdulmohammadi, 56, from Sheberghan; Sakhi Abdulmohammadi, 24, Rabie’s nephew, also from Sheberghan; and Qaed Nasiri, 27, from Kunduz.

The authorities also executed Mozaffar Minapour, a 37-year-old prisoner from Taybad, and Nader Abil, a 40-year-old Baloch prisoner.

Sources familiar with the case said Mullah Rabie Abdulmohammadi and Sakhi Abdulmohammadi had been arrested two years ago in a joint drug-related case. Qaed Nasiri had been imprisoned for four years, Nader Abil for five years, and Mozaffar Minapour for three years before all five were sentenced to death on drug-related charges by the Iranian judiciary.

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

Executions in Semnan, Hamadan

Iranian authorities executed two prisoners, Esmail Aghaei and Ali Rasouli, in separate cases at Semnan and Hamadan prisons. They had previously been sentenced to death on charges related to "drug offenses" and "premeditated murder," respectively.

According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Esmail Aghaei, a 43-year-old father of two from Bushehr, was executed at Semnan Prison on Saturday, August 1, 2026. He had been arrested two years earlier on charges related to "drug offenses" and sentenced to death.

Aghaei was executed alongside another prisoner, Mohammad Aghaei, whose execution was reported separately by Hengaw.

In a separate case, Ali Rasouli, a 25-year-old from Hamadan, was executed at Hamadan Central Prison in the early hours of Monday, July 28, 2026. He had been arrested one year and ten months earlier on charges of "premeditated murder" before being sentenced to death by the Iranian judiciary.

Neither execution had been announced by Iranian state media, including outlets affiliated with the judiciary.

Executions in Yasuj

Iranian authorities executed at least two prisoners, including a woman, at Yasuj Central Prison. The prisoners, Mahtab Shirmohammadi, 32, and Sirus Sayadi, 40, had been sentenced to death in separate cases on charges of "premeditated murder."

According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the executions were carried out at dawn on Sunday, August 2, 2026. Shirmohammadi, a Turkish woman from Tabriz, and Sayadi, a Lor man from Yasuj, had each been sentenced to qisas (retribution in kind) by the Iranian judiciary.

Mahtab Shirmohammadi, 32, was the mother of one daughter. Around three years ago, during a family dispute and heated argument at her mother's home in Yasuj, she fatally stabbed her husband. She was subsequently sentenced to qisas.

Sirus Sayadi, 40, was from Yasuj and the father of one child. Around five years ago, he was arrested for fatally shooting a man with a hunting rifle during a large family altercation and was later sentenced to qisas.

Iranian state media and judiciary-affiliated outlets had not announced the executions.

Source: Hengaw, Staff, August 3-4, 2026

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