Monday, August 26: Public Execution of a Prisoner in Shahrud, Northern Iran

126 Prisoners Executed Between July 22 and August 21 Amid the Endorsement, Inauguration, and Cabinet Appointment of Khamenei’s New President

According to the regime’s judiciary news agency, Mohammad Sadegh Akbari, the Chief Justice of Semnan Province, announced today, Monday, August 26, that a prisoner was executed in public this morning in the city of Shahrud. In addition to this brutal act, the regime’s executioners also hanged a 25-year-old prisoner named Barekatali Sanjerani in Zahedan Prison.

On Saturday, August 24, Abbas Rashidi in Qazvin and another prisoner named Fahim in Isfahan were executed. On Thursday, August 22, Mohammad Khaled Jahangiri in Tabriz and Vahid Abbasi in Nahavand Prison were hanged.

 On Wednesday, August 21, Mohammad Daghestani in Miandoab and another prisoner in Yazd were executed, and on Monday, August 19, two prisoners named Mehdi Piri, 31, and Mazaher Ayvazi, 35, were hanged in Zanjan. Additionally, Esmail Javadi and Mohammad Karamizadeh were sent to the gallows in Qezelhessar Prison. This brings the number of documented executions during the Iranian month of Mordad (July 22 to August 21), coinciding with the endorsement, inauguration, and cabinet appointment of Khamenei’s new president, to at least 126 prisoners.

Ali Khamenei, entangled in domestic and international crises and fearful of a popular uprising, spares no crime. Silence in the face of this leader of terror and execution betrays universal human rights values and only encourages further repression and killings in Iran, as well as war and terrorism in the region and beyond.

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

19 August 2024