Iran | Executions in Khorramabad, Rasht, Kerman, Zahedan, Shiraz

Iranian authorities have executed Ahmad Bazvand, a 35-year-old Lor prisoner, in Khorramabad Central Prison despite evidence raising doubts about his responsibility for the killing for which he was sentenced to death.

According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Bazvand was executed at dawn on Wednesday, October 7, 2026. A resident of Bazvand village in Pol-e Dokhtar County, he was married and the father of a six-year-old daughter.

Bazvand was arrested approximately four years ago following a family dispute involving his cousins that escalated into an exchange of gunfire. He was accused of killing his uncle’s son-in-law and subsequently sentenced to death on charges of “premeditated murder.”

Hengaw sources reported that crime scene evidence and forensic findings, including the trajectory of a bullet that struck the victim from behind, suggested that someone else was more likely to have fired the fatal shot. His defense lawyer also maintained that Bazvand was not responsible for the killing. Despite these findings, the court sentenced him to death under qisas (retribution in kind), reportedly disregarding the evidence and acting under pressure from the victim’s family.

Iranian state media and judicial authorities have not announced his execution.

Execution in Rasht

Ayoub Mohammad Nabil, a 28-year-old Iraqi national who had been sentenced to death on a charge of “moharebeh (waging war against God) through espionage for Saudi-backed groups," has been secretly executed at Lakan Prison, also known as Rasht Central Prison.

According to information obtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Nabil, an Arab political prisoner from Haditha, Iraq, was executed at dawn on Sunday, October 11, 2026, at Lakan Prison in Rasht.

Sources familiar with the case told Hengaw that Nabil had been transferred to solitary confinement the previous Thursday in preparation for his execution. The transfer followed an escalation in fighting between Saudi military forces and the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen.

Nabil had previously been sentenced to death by Branch 1 of the Rasht Revolutionary Court on the charge of “moharebeh through espionage for Saudi-backed proxy groups.”

Hengaw previously reported that Nabil was arrested on August 26, 2025, by Intelligence Ministry agents in Fuman, Gilan Province.

Nabil was held for five months at an Intelligence Ministry detention facility in Rasht, where he was subjected to severe physical and psychological torture, before being transferred to Lakan Prison.

Hengaw reported that the security case against Nabil was based solely on his Sunni Muslim religious identity, his appearance, and his involvement in teaching the Quran to local children. Nabil had denied all allegations against him.

Iranian state media and judicial authorities have not publicly announced his execution.

Executions in Kerman

Iranian authorities executed two Baloch prisoners, Amin Khajeh Nezami and Habibullah Ghanbarzehi Farjad, in Central Kerman Prison. Both had been sentenced to death in separate cases involving “drug-related offenses.”

According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the executions took place at dawn on Monday, October 12, 2026. Khajeh Nezami, 33, was a father of three from Rigan County in Kerman Province, while Ghanbarzehi Farjad, 38, from Zahedan, was also a father.

Hengaw sources reported that Iranian security forces arrested the two men in 2022 and 2023, respectively. Both were subsequently sentenced to death.

Iranian state media and judicial authorities have not announced either execution.

Execution in Zahedan

Iranian authorities executed Omar Dorostaran, a 27-year-old Baloch political prisoner and religious student, at Zahedan Central Prison in Sistan and Baluchestan Province. He had been sentenced to death on charges of “armed rebellion” (baghi).

According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Dorostaran was executed at dawn on Monday, October 12, 2026. Mizan News Agency, the Iranian judiciary’s official media outlet, confirmed his execution.

Dorostaran, from Cheraghan village in Rask County, was studying religious sciences at a seminary in Pishin. Plainclothes agents of the Intelligence Department arrested him without a warrant on the evening of April 8, 2024, following prayers in Rask.

Following his arrest, Dorostaran was severely beaten and whipped with cables while blindfolded and handcuffed before being transferred to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) intelligence detention facility in Zahedan. He was held for months in security detention facilities, where he was subjected to severe physical and psychological torture aimed at extracting forced confessions of alleged links to religious and political activists. During this period, he was denied visits and contact with his family.

Mizan claimed that Dorostaran had been sentenced to death on charges of “armed rebellion” over alleged membership in and links to the armed group Jaish al-Adl, as well as participation in attacks on military facilities in Rask and Chabahar in April 2024. The agency stated that the Supreme Court had upheld his death sentence.

The legal proceedings against Dorostaran were rushed and lacked transparency, failing to meet international fair trial standards.

Executions in Shiraz

Esmaeil Khalili Baseri, a Lor prisoner from Dezhkord in Eqlid County, Fars Province, has been executed at Adelabad Prison, also known as Shiraz Central Prison.

According to information obtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Khalili Baseri was executed at dawn on Sunday, October 11, 2026, at Shiraz Central Prison.

Sources familiar with the case told Hengaw that Khalili Baseri had previously been arrested on a charge of “premeditated murder” and subsequently sentenced to death under Iran’s qisas (retributive justice) laws.

Iranian state media and judicial authorities have not publicly announced his execution.

Iranian authorities have executed three prisoners, including a Turk, at Adelabad Prison in Shiraz on charges of “drug-related offenses” and “murder.” None of the executions has been officially announced.

According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Mahmoud Alishahi, 48, a livestock farm worker, tenant, and father of two, and Samad Hojatpour, 51, both from Bojnord, North Khorasan Province, were executed at dawn on Sunday, October 4, 2026, without prior notification to their families.

The two men had been arrested two years earlier and sentenced to death in a joint case involving “drug-related offenses.”

Seyed Fazel Ghaseminejad, 36, a Turk from Jolfa and father of one, was executed at the same prison on September 19, 2026, after being convicted of “murder” following a physical altercation. He had been detained for four years and was executed after being unable to pay the full 17 billion tomans in blood money demanded by the victim’s family.

Iranian state media and judicial authorities have not reported any of the three executions.

Source: Hengaw, Staff, October 10-3, 2026

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