🔸Behind Every Execution Is a Life That Cannot Be Restored

🔴October 10 | World Day Against the Death Penalty 🔸In Iran, executions are carried out under various charges, yet all of them raise fundamental and shared questions about justice, a fair trial, and the right to life: Behind every execution lies a human story.

🔴October 10 | World Day Against the Death Penalty 🔸In Iran, executions are carried out under various charges, yet all of them raise fundamental and shared questions about justice, a fair trial, and the right to life: Behind every execution lies a human story.

🔸Authorities later went to the village to exhume his body, but local residents prevented them from doing so. 🔸Mohammad Amini’s family rejected an offer of blood money (diya) and continues to demand that those responsible for his killing be identified and prosecuted.

🔴Moments after Mohammad Amini helped several protesters find shelter, he was struck by three live rounds.  He passed away from his injuries at the hospital. Fearing that authorities might seize Mohammad’s body, his family buried him that same night in the village of Younesabad.

🔸Alireza Sepahi and Mahshad Keshani, who was also arrested during the January 2026 protests and had been engaged to each other prior to their arrest, had married over the phone while behind bars.

🔸Previously, the Supreme Court had granted a retrial in Alireza Sepahi's case and referred it to a parallel branch for review. However, the new branch rejected the case without holding a hearing and proceeded to carry out the execution.

🔴The death sentence of Alireza Sepahi, born in 2001 and a detainee of the January 2026 protests, was carried out at dawn on Monday, October 5, 2026, in Isfahan’s Dastgerd Prison. He was one of the defendants in the case known as the "Alikhani Square of Isfahan" and had been arrested on January 2026.

🔸“No one should face the fear of execution for exercising their rights”

🔸The statement marks the first cross-regional joint statement on Iran since September 2024, renewing collective international scrutiny of Iran’s use of the death penalty. As executions continue at an alarming rate, sustained international attention matters.

🔸The statement comes amid an alarming escalation in the use of capital punishment following the January 2026 protests. At least 31 protesters have been executed, while dozens more have reportedly been sentenced to death or remain at imminent risk of execution.

🔸In a joint statement delivered by Liechtenstein, 45 states sounded the alarm over the sharp rise in executions and death sentences in Iran—particularly against protesters and those exercising their fundamental rights.

🔴For the first time in nearly two years, states from across the world have come together at the UN Human Rights Council to condemn the Islamic Republic of Iran’s escalating use of the death penalty.

🔸Yet the judicial proceedings have been marked by restrictions on families, witnesses, and lawyers. According to Molavi Abdolhamid, those who ordered the killings, as well as members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Basij involved in the violence, have never been held to account.

🔸In the years since the killings, victims’ families have sought not only to identify the officers who opened fire on protesters and worshippers, but also to hold accountable the officials who ordered the crackdown.

🔴Four years have passed since “Zahedan’s Bloody Friday,” a day when many families across Sistan and Baluchestan lost loved ones and hundreds of others were injured.

🔸The specific court that heard the case and the location of the executions have also not been disclosed, and the judiciary’s claims have not been independently verified.

🔸However, no independent information has been published regarding the conditions of their interrogations, the circumstances under which the confessions wereobtained, the conduct of the court proceedings, their effective access to legal counsel, or the evidence relied upon by the court.