On Sunday, August 3, 2025, at least 10 prisoners were executed in the prisons of Arak, Kermanshah, Khorramabad, and Karaj. These executions are part of a growing wave of capital punishment in Iran. So far, at least 62 individuals have been executed In just two weeks—averaging nearly five executions per day, or one every five hours.
Among those executed was Saber Azizpour, a 25-year-old man from Harsin, who was hanged in Khorramabad prison on charges of murder. On the same day, Rasoul Arabi was also executed in Arak prison on similar charges.
Moslem Jalali, who had been convicted of armed robbery, was executed in Dizelabad Prison in Kermanshah.
In Karaj Central Prison, seven inmates were executed at dawn on Sunday. The names of six of them have been confirmed: Sajjad Pourdanesh (from Tehran), Reza Bakhtavar and Meysam Joudaki (from Karaj), Ali Hosseinpour (from Kuhdasht), Mohammad Golousi (from Kermanshah), and Fariborz Haghi (from Nourabad). The individuals were reportedly charged with drug-related offenses.
These mass executions continue despite repeated concerns from human rights organizations over the lack of fair trials, use of torture to extract confessions, and the political use of the death penalty as a tool of fear and repression.
