Iran’s Regime Reconfirms Death Sentences of 6 Political Prisoners Accused of Membership in PMOI

Call for Urgent Action to Save the Lives of These Prisoners

On Sunday, December 7, 2025, the Iranian regime’s judiciary reconfirmed the death sentences for six political prisoners—Babak Alipour, Pouya Ghobadi, Vahid Bani Amerian, Mohammad Taghavi, Akbar (Shahrokh) Daneshvarkar, and Abolhassan Montazer—on charges of membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).

The retrial of these six prisoners was held on November 16, 2025, at Branch 26 of Tehran’s so-called Revolutionary Court. The head of this court, criminal judge Iman Afshari, ignored the lawyers’ insistence that their clients be tried together in a single case. Instead, he held separate hearings for each of them, with each session lasting only a few minutes!

A year ago, on November 30, 2024, the same criminal judge in the same branch had initially sentenced all six prisoners to death.

Abolhassan Montazer, 66, who holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture, was a political prisoner in the 1980s. He was arrested and imprisoned several times in 2018 and 2020. He was last arrested in January 2024 and suffers from heart, lung, and kidney diseases.

Pouya Ghobadi, 33, an electrical engineer, was arrested in March 2024 and transferred to Evin Prison. He had been arrested twice before.

Vahid Bani Amerian, 33, who holds a master’s degree in management, was arrested in January 2024. He had been arrested several times since 2017 and had been imprisoned for a total of four years.

Babak Alipour, 34, who holds a bachelor’s degree in law, was arrested in January 2024. He was previously arrested in Rasht in November 2018 and was imprisoned for four years.

Ali Akbar (Shahrokh) Daneshvarkar, 59, a civil engineer, was arrested in January 2024.

Mohammad Taghavi, 59, was a political prisoner in the 1980s and 1990s. He was previously arrested in 2020 and served three years in prison on charges of having ties with the PMOI.

The Iranian Resistance once again calls on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, and other relevant UN bodies, as well as the European Union and its member states, to take urgent action to save the lives of the six political prisoners facing execution.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)

December 8, 2025