According to Hana’s report and citing the Iran Human Rights Organization, at dawn today, Wednesday, September 17, 2025 (26 Shahrivar 1404), the death sentence of Babak Shahbazi, a political prisoner, was carried out in Ghezel Hesar Prison, Karaj.
The case of this prisoner was fraught with ambiguities, contradictions, and serious legal flaws. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court, in three stages and without regard to the existing evidence and deficiencies, rejected his request for a retrial.
According to the report, the charges brought against Babak Shahbazi were based on Article 6 of the law known as the “Act Against Hostile Actions of Israel,” while no evidence of actual cooperation or access to classified information was ever presented. The main basis of the case rested on confessions extracted from him and other prisoners under torture and coercion—confessions he never signed in writing and always insisted were made under threat and duress.
In addition, a letter he had written during the Russia-Ukraine war addressed to the President of Ukraine was fabricated into a letter addressed to Israel and used as the main basis of the charges against him.
The execution of Babak Shahbazi once again demonstrates the Iranian judiciary’s disregard for the principles of fair trial and its international obligations in the field of human rights.