The Hana Human Rights Organization has learned that on the morning of Saturday, October 4, 2025 (12 Mehr 1404), the death sentence of Saman Mohammadi Khiyareh, a Kurdish political prisoner from Sanandaj, was secretly carried out in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj without prior notice to his family.
According to verified information, the execution was conducted without observing legal procedures, including the prisoner’s right to a final visit with his family.
Saman Mohammadi Khiyareh was arrested in December 2013 at the age of 19 by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and had since been held in prison for 12 years. Throughout this entire period, he was denied furlough and, according to multiple reports, was subjected to severe torture during interrogation, forcing him to make coerced confessions against himself. These confessions became the basis for his death sentence issued by Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Abolghasem Salavati. The charges against him included “enmity against God (moharebeh)” and “membership in terrorist groups affiliated with foreign intelligence services.”
Over the years, all legal appeals and requests for retrial or suspension of the sentence were rejected by the relevant judicial authorities. Official state sources have also tried to link his case to alleged organized actions against the Islamic Republic by accusing him of involvement in the killing of law enforcement officers and pro-regime religious figures.
The Hana Human Rights Organization considers this execution a gross violation of fundamental human rights, including the right to life and the prohibition of torture, and strongly condemns it. The organization once again calls on international human rights bodies and mechanisms to take urgent and effective action to end the cycle of political executions and to push for the complete and permanent abolition of the death penalty in Iran.