According to reports received by the Hana Human Rights Organization, in the early hours of Sunday, July 27, 2025, two political prisoners, Mehdi Hasani and Behrouz Ehsani Eslamloo, were executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj.
The Judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran had described both men as operational members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and charged them primarily with “rebellion” (baghi). According to an official statement released by the judiciary, the two were accused of activities such as forming safe houses, manufacturing and using launchers and hand-made mortars, promoting the PMOI, damaging public property, and sending information abroad.
Mehdi Hasani and Behrouz Ehsani Eslamloo were previously tried at Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Iman Afshari, on charges including rebellion (baghi), armed insurrection (moharebeh), corruption on earth (efsad fel-arz), gathering classified information, and collusion against national security. They were both sentenced to death.
The verdicts were upheld by the Supreme Court and subsequently carried out. Despite multiple requests for retrial submitted by their defense attorneys, all appeals were rejected by the Supreme Court.
Throughout the legal process, the prisoners’ families and lawyers repeatedly reported denial of full access to case files, restrictions on legal defense, and security-related pressures.
Mehdi Hasani, born in 1976, married and father of two, was arrested on September 9, 2022, while attempting to leave the country near Zanjan. Behrouz Ehsani Eslamloo, born in 1960 and a resident of Tehran, was arrested by security forces in December 2022. Both were initially held in Evin Prison, and later transferred to Ghezel Hesar Prison in February 2025.