On the Execution of Seven Arab and Kurdish Political Prisoners in Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz and Ghezel Hesar Prison

On Saturday, October 4, 2025, the blade of oppression and execution of the Islamic Republic of Iran fell upon the necks of seven Arab and Kurdish political and civil prisoners. Six Arab political prisoners were executed in Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz on baseless charges such as “separatism,” “terrorism,” and “spying for Israel,” even though they sought nothing other than social justice for themselves and for the Arab people of Khuzestan (the Ahwaz region). Their unjust death sentences were carried out by the judicial authorities and the intelligence apparatus of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. In addition, Saman Mohammadi Khiyareh, a Kurdish political prisoner, was executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison after enduring 16 years of imprisonment.

During the past six months, Ahwazi human rights organizations had repeatedly warned of the imminent danger of the execution of the six Arab political activists and had called on international human rights institutions to pressure the corrupt security and judicial bodies of the Islamic Republic of Iran to prevent the execution of these sentences and to disclose their place of detention.

The names of the six Arab political prisoners, who were arrested in 2018 and 2019 and were deprived of the right to meet their families, are as follows:

Seyyed Salem Mousavi, Mohammadreza Moghadam, Ali Mojadam, Mo’in Khonfari, Habib Drees, and Adnan Al-Boshoukeh (Ghabishavi).

According to reliable sources of the Ahwaz Human Rights Organization, all of them suffered during detention from kidney and heart diseases, back injuries, and psychological disorders resulting from unbearable torture, and at least five of them had lost their mental stability multiple times due to severe torture. Last week, these prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement in Sepidar Prison without informing their families.

Saman Mohammadi Khiyareh, born in Sanandaj, was arrested in 2009 at the age of 19 and was sentenced to death on the charge of moharebeh by Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Abolghasem Salavati. This political prisoner was finally hanged on Saturday in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj after 16 years of imprisonment by the criminal ruling government.

Broad Solidarity for Freedom and Equality in Iran and the Congress of Nationalities for a Federal Iran, while condemning the criminal and inhumane execution of these political prisoners, once again call on all international and human rights institutions, especially Ms. Mai Sato, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran to increase pressure on the Iranian government to halt unlawful and inhumane executions and to place once again on the agenda of the UN Secretary-General the issue of visiting prisons and cities in Iran.

Broad Solidarity for Freedom and Equality in Iran
Congress of Nationalities for a Federal Iran

October 5, 2025