5 people were hanged in the city of Birjand on Tuesday November 20

Mehdi Alizadeh, a 47-year-old father of two, was executed in Shiraz (Adel Abad) Central Prison on 8 October 2026, Iran Human Rights reports. He had been arrested eight years earlier and sentenced to qisas for murder. His case was separate from the other cases documented in the https://t.co/9PTBAyl0Iw

Mehdi Mirzayi, 22, was executed in Malayer Prison on 12 October 2026 after being sentenced to qisas for murder, Iran Human Rights reports. An informed source said his father had been advised not to hire a defence lawyer, on the claim that doing so could jeopardise the chance of https://t.co/t0YkQfupP8

Mohammadreza Salehzadeh, known as Shahin, was executed in Gorgan (Amir Abad) Central Prison on 6 October 2026 after being sentenced to qisas for murder, Iran Human Rights reports. An informed source told IHRNGO that he said he had used a knife to resist an attempted rape. https://t.co/rNB4jiHxOt