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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 01/10/2026

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

Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 01/10/2026

🔸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.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 01/10/2026

🔸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.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 01/10/2026

🔸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.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 01/10/2026

🔴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.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 01/10/2026

🔸Read the stories of some of the victims of “Zahedan’s Bloody Friday” on the Omid Memorial. iranrights.org/memorial/story… iranrights.org/memorial/story��

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 01/10/2026

🔸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.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 01/10/2026

🔸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.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 01/10/2026

🔴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.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 30/09/2026

🔸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.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 30/09/2026

🔸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.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 30/09/2026

🔸 According to the judiciary, four security personnel were killed during those events. 🔸According to Mizan, following the completion of the investigation, the defendants were tried in the presence of their lawyers and sentenced to death, with the verdicts later upheld by the Supreme Court.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 30/09/2026

🔸Citing what it described as the men’s “confessions,” the judiciary-affiliated media claimed that Mr. Ali Hemmati Sistanian and Mr. Majid Nikandish were involved in the protests of January 8, 2026, in the Tabarsi area of Mashhad.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 30/09/2026

🔸Their death sentences were carried out early today after being upheld by the Supreme Court. The location of the executions was not disclosed.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 30/09/2026

🔸The Islamic Republic’s judiciary announced the execution of Mr. Ali Hemmati Sistanian, son of Hassan, and Mr. Majid Nikandish, son of Mohammad Ebrahim, two individuals arrested in connection with the nationwide protests of Dey 1404 in Mashhad.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 30/09/2026

🔴Iran Executed Ali Hemmati Sistanian and Majid Nikandish

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 28/09/2026

🔸The family rejected the offer, saying that Mohsen had knowingly taken to the streets to protest the country’s conditions and exercise his fundamental rights. 🔸Read Mohsen Rashidi Khaniabadi’s full story on the Omid Memorial. www.iranrights.org/memorial/sto...

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Mohsen Rashidi Khani Abadi: One Person’s Story

Mohsen Rashidi Khani Abadi, whose father had been executed by the government, was himself a critic of the government and actively participated in most protests.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 28/09/2026

🔸Security authorities later tried to persuade the family to have Mohsen officially designated a “martyr,” offering financial benefits in return.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 28/09/2026

🔸After marrying, he also took responsibility for raising his wife’s two daughters from a previous marriage. According to those close to him, he made no distinction between them and his own daughter.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 28/09/2026

🔸Mohsen Rashidi Khaniabadi was the eldest son in his family. After his father was executed when Mohsen was still a child, he began working at a young age and spent years helping support his mother and siblings.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 28/09/2026

🔴After four days of searching, his family found his body at the morgue of Bagh-e Rezvan Cemetery in Isfahan.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 28/09/2026

🔸Referring to women's optional hijab as "nudity and social anomaly," he emphasized that Judiciary Chief instructs prosecutors to confront opposition to compulsory hijab: “Putting an end to social abnormalities is essential; do not be afraid of the uproar.”

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 28/09/2026

🔴Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, the head of the Islamic Republic’s judiciary, officially requested the Prosecutor General in a meeting this morning to place the crackdown on women's optional hijab on the agenda of the Security Council.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 27/09/2026

🔸Read Mohammad Abbaszadeh’s full story on the Omid Memorial. iranrights.org/memorial/story…

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 27/09/2026

🔸Despite these pressures, the family buried Mohammad in his hometown of Ahvaz while his wounded father remained hospitalized and was unable to attend the funeral of his only child.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 27/09/2026

🔸The pressure continued afterward. Several relatives were summoned, family members were required to sign written pledges, and security authorities imposed restrictions on how the funeral could be held – even dictating on the account the family was expected to give of how Mohammad had been killed.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 27/09/2026

🔴It took seven days for Mohammad Abbaszadeh’s family to recover the body of their only child. During that time, they repeatedly approached judicial and security authorities but received no clear answers. They were simply told to wait for a text message.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 27/09/2026

🔸Read Mohsen Amir Aslani’s full story on the Omid Memorial. iranrights.org/memorial/story…

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 27/09/2026

🔸They later wrote that throughout those eight and a half years, many of their questions about the judicial proceedings went unanswered, and that they were not even provided with a copy of the ruling that ultimately led to their son’s execution.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 27/09/2026

🔸Until the eve of his execution, his family tried to prevent his death through legal channels while keeping the case out of the media to mitigate reprisals by the state.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 27/09/2026

🔴According to those close to him, Mohsen Amir Aslani was pressured to “repent” during the more than eight years he spent in prison, but he refused to renounce his beliefs and views.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 25/09/2026

🔸end impunity, and guarantee seeking families' right of access to truth, accountability, and reparation.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 25/09/2026

🔸While the Iranian government publishes no official and transparent statistics regarding border casualties, the signatories of the statement reminded that the Iranian state is obligated to uphold its commitments regarding the right to life,

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 25/09/2026

🔸and Nicolas Levrat (Special Rapporteur on minority issues)—issued a joint statement warning against the ongoing unlawful killings of Kurdish kolbars and Baloch sukhtbars, demanding an immediate halt to the use of lethal force against them by Iranian security forces.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 25/09/2026

🔴four independent UN human rights experts—Mai Sato (Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran), Morris Tidball-Binz (Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions), Elena Carolina Díaz Galán (Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights)

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 24/09/2026

🔸These are just a few of the hundreds of people killed during the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests. Keep their memories alive by learning their stories on the Omid Memorial. You can also explore where protesters were killed on the interactive protest map: iranrights.org/projects/prote…

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 24/09/2026

🔸Sarina Esma’ilzadeh Student and poet who died after being struck repeatedly on the head with batons during protests in Mehrshahr. 🔸Read the full story of Sarina Esma’ilzadeh on the Omid Memorial: iranrights.org/memorial/story…

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 24/09/2026

🔸Shirin Alizadeh A proud mother fatally shot by security forces while filming a protest from her car in front of her husband and son. 🔸Read the full story of Shirin Alizadeh on the Omid Memorial: iranrights.org/memorial/story…

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 24/09/2026

🔸Mohammad Jamebozorg A father shot in his own home by security forces after he tried to protect his sons. 🔸Read the full story of Mohammad Jamebozorg on the Omid Memorial: iranrights.org/fa/memorial/st…

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 24/09/2026

🔸Nika Shakarami A fearless teenager who went missing after taking part in protests. Her body was found with multiple blows to the head hours later. 🔸Read the full story of Nika Shakarami on the Omid Memorial: iranrights.org/memorial/story…

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 24/09/2026

🔸Siavash Mahmudi A national youth football player who was fatally shot by security forces . When his mom went searching for him, officers hit her with a baton.” 🔸Read the full story of Siavash Mahmudi on the Omid Memorial: iranrights.org/memorial/story…

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 24/09/2026

🔸Minu Majidi A mother of three, she was chanting alongside other protesters when security forces fired at her from behind with a shotgun. 🔸Read the full story of Minu Majidi on the Omid Memorial: iranrights.org/memorial/story…

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 24/09/2026

🔸Fereidun Mahmudi A quiet family man who was killed after security forces and special units opened fire on and beat protesters outside Saqqez’s Grand Mosque. 🔸Read the full story of Fereidun Mahmudi on the Omid Memorial: iranrights.org/memorial/story…

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 24/09/2026

🔸Mahsa Mogu'i Isfahan A skilled athlete who fought off security forces and initially managed to escape. . On her way home, a vehicle blocked her path, and armed men opened fire on her. 🔸Read the full story of Mahsa Mogu'i on the Omid Memorial: iranrights.org/memorial/story…

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 24/09/2026

🔴From Saqqez to Tehran, the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests changed hundreds of families forever. Behind every name was a life that cannot be reduced to a date or a photograph—and a family still seeking truth and accountability.

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 21/09/2026

🔸"We must not forget that Iran's repression is transnational." Member States raised alarm over Iran's efforts to target and silence critics beyond its borders

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 21/09/2026

🔸On the Right to Public Assembly, Association, and Freedom of Expression Member-states called on Iran to respect peaceful assembly and freedom of expression and end repression of those exercising these rights:

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 21/09/2026

🔸The Death Penalty as a Tool of Repression A vast majority of States (22) condemned Iran’s escalating use of the death penalty against protesters:

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 21/09/2026

🔸Serious Operational Constraints in Documenting Abuses FFMI Chair Sara Hossain highlighted the severe constraints hindering the Mission's investigation:

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 21/09/2026

🔴Today the UN Human Rights Council held an interactive dialogue with the Fact-Finding Mission on Iran to discuss their report findings on human rights abuses in Iran. 🔸In this post, you will read key excerpts during this session:

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