{"id":344065,"date":"2026-04-04T13:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=344065"},"modified":"2026-04-04T13:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:15:02","slug":"irans-killing-machine-claims-ten-political-prisoners-in-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/irans-killing-machine-claims-ten-political-prisoners-in-two-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Killing Machine Claims Ten Political Prisoners in 16 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-344066 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/six-pmoi-executed-members.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/six-pmoi-executed-members.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/six-pmoi-executed-members-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/six-pmoi-executed-members-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/six-pmoi-executed-members-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/six-pmoi-executed-members-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/six-pmoi-executed-members-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Four-minute read<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Between March 19 and April 4, 2026, Iran\u2019s regime executed at least ten political prisoners; a wave of state killing that shows the clerical regime has once again turned the gallows into its main instrument for preserving power, instead of responding to the people\u2019s demands. During this period, six political prisoners who were members of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) and four political prisoners from among the protesters of the January 2026 uprising were executed; executions that are not a sign of strength, but rather reveal the regime\u2019s terror in the face of a protesting society and a generation that no longer accepts the survival of this regime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This wave of repression clearly reveals the regime\u2019s objective: the physical elimination of the organized opposition. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atalayar.com\/en\/articulo\/society\/iran-executes-two-political-prisoners-from-the-pmoi-amid-internal-tensions\/20260331190000224428.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mohammad Taghavi<\/a> and Ali Akbar (Shahrokh) Daneshvarkar were executed on March 30; Babak Alipour and Pouya Ghobadi were hanged one day later, on March 31; and finally, Vahid Bani Amerian and Abolhassan Montazer were also executed on April 4. Amnesty International described these cases as stemming from \u201cgrossly unfair, torture-tainted trials\u201d and warned that these executions were carried out secretly, without prior notice to the families or lawyers, after the prisoners had been transferred to an undisclosed location. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-executes-two-linked-opposition-group-media-say-2026-04-04\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters also confirmed<\/a> on April 4 that two more individuals connected to the same case had been executed that day, and that these executions were a continuation of the recent wave against individuals accused of links to the PMOI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The six political prisoners who were PMOI members were not \u201cterrorists,\u201d contrary to the regime\u2019s labels; they were political opponents of a regime that for years has responded to every organized voice for a free Iran with torture, forced confessions, and execution. The foundation of these cases follows the clerical regime\u2019s familiar pattern: fabricating security-related cases, extracting confessions under torture, conducting trials that last only a few minutes, and then carrying out the sentence in silence and secrecy. For this reason, these executions must be called what they are: not justice, but premeditated political murder.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I have sworn to overthrow the tyrant with my blood&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Six PMOI members after being sentenced to death by Iran&#39;s regime, singing songs of resistance and defiance against the mullahs&#39; rule.<\/p>\n<p>They were all executed this week:<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Taghavi (59)<br \/>Ali Akbar (Shahrokh) Daneshvarkar\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BnvzaRXYLr\">pic.twitter.com\/BnvzaRXYLr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/2040351097441693828?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alongside these six PMOI members, four other political prisoners from among the protesters of the January 2026 uprising were also executed; four rebellious young people who, contrary to the regime\u2019s false claims branding them as \u201cterrorists,\u201d were freedom fighters who took to the streets for Iran\u2019s freedom. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ce9mzn7k722o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Three of them<\/a>\u2014Saleh Mohammadi, Mehdi Ghasemi, and Saeed Davoudi\u2014were publicly executed in Qom on March 19. According to the regime\u2019s official narrative, their charges were \u201cmoharebeh\u201d (waging war against God) through the use of cold weapons in \u201cgatherings and riots,\u201d \u201cparticipation in the killing\u201d of two State Security Force agents, and \u201cinciting people to war and killing with the intent to disrupt the country\u2019s security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fourth prisoner, 18-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-human-rights\/iran-criminal-execution-of-18-year-old-amirhossein-hatami-a-rebellious-youth-of-the-january-uprising\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amirhossein Hatami<\/a>, was executed in Tehran on April 2; his charges were announced as \u201cmoharebeh\u201d and \u201ccorruption on earth,\u201d and the regime claimed that during the January uprising he had attacked a military center in Tehran, set it on fire, and entered it in search of weapons and ammunition. But behind these regime-fabricated labels lies another reality: these were rebellious young men who stood up to tyranny and paid the price for Iran\u2019s freedom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Through these executions, the regime seeks to intimidate society, but the very timing of these crimes shows that the ruling establishment is acting from a position of weakness and fear. Reuters had reported that on March 23, Iranian judicial authorities announced that the sentences in cases related to the January protests had been finalized and were being implemented, and that there would be \u201cno leniency.\u201d This means that the recent wave of executions is not a series of isolated events, but part of a political and security decision to crush dissent and prevent the return of uprising. At the same time, human rights reports speak of a rise in executions, the severing of prisoners\u2019 contact with their families, and the use of war and crisis as cover to conceal repression.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> News Alert, Simay Azadi Exclusive<\/p>\n<p>Message in English by PMOI member Vahid Baniamerian (\u201cCommander Vahid\u201d), recorded in November 2025 from Ghezel Hesar Prison.<\/p>\n<p>Supporting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Maryam_Rajavi<\/a>\u2019s Ten-Point Plan, he said: \u201cIt is time for the world to correct the failed and\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9BFaFntZd6\">https:\/\/t.co\/9BFaFntZd6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/asbLik56oY\">pic.twitter.com\/asbLik56oY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SIMAY AZADI TV (@en_simayazadi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/en_simayazadi\/status\/2040393227933561211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These crimes have been met with widespread condemnation. On April 3, Mai Sato, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/drmaisato\/status\/2040105875785031793\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expressed concern<\/a> over the imminent risk of execution facing Vahid Bani Amerian and Abolhassan Montazer, while noting that further reports of executions were continuing to reach her amid the ongoing war and internet shutdown. In addition, political figures in the United States and Britain have warned about these executions and the danger of further death sentences being carried out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But in the face of this blatant bloodshed, the European Union\u2019s silence is troubling and shameful. The European Union has made no clear and independent public statement regarding this recent wave of executions. Such silence, in the face of the execution of ten political prisoners within a short period, is nothing less than a moral and political failure. The European Union cannot use \u201chuman rights\u201d as a diplomatic language while, at the same time, refusing even to issue a clear position when six members of the organized opposition and four young protesters are being hanged one by one.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> News Alert &#8211; Simay Azadi Exclusive <br \/>Message by PMOI member Babak Alipour, following the confirmation of his death sentence by the regime&#39;s so-called Revolutionary Court in November 2025. &quot;I vow to continue this path until the end.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AzSgQmTAwG\">pic.twitter.com\/AzSgQmTAwG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SIMAY AZADI TV (@en_simayazadi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/en_simayazadi\/status\/2039098298489835534?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The clerical regime uses executions to survive\u2014to spread fear, silence dissent, and buy time. But killing political prisoners will not save a collapsing dictatorship or hide the truth. The ten executed prisoners stand as symbols of a people fighting for freedom and of a regime terrified of that demand. The international community, especially Europe, must go beyond words: break its silence, hold the perpetrators accountable, and raise the political and legal cost of these crimes. A first step is shutting down the regime\u2019s embassies and expelling its terrorist diplomats from Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four-minute read Between March 19 and April 4, 2026, Iran&rsquo;s regime executed at least ten political prisoners; a wave of state killing that shows the clerical regime has once again [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":344066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,75,15],"tags":[197,222,240],"class_list":{"0":"post-344065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran-resistance","8":"category-stop-executions-in-iran","9":"category-human-rights","10":"tag-mek-iran","11":"tag-iranian-resistance","12":"tag-iran-execution"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iran\u2019s Killing Machine Claims Ten Political Prisoners in 16 Days - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Four-minute read Between March 19 and April 4, 2026, Iran\u2019s regime executed at least ten political prisoners; 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