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May 2026
May 7, 2026
Iran conducting near-daily prisoner executions in secrecy, say rights groups.
Rights groups report that Iran is carrying out near-daily executions of prisoners in secrecy, often refusing to return bodies to families and pressuring them into…
May 3, 2026
Iran executes another political prisoner detained during 2022 nationwide protests
Iranian authorities executed Mehrab Abdollahzadeh, a political prisoner arrested during the 2022 anti-government protests, on Sunday. He was accused of involvement in the killing of…
May 2, 2026
Iran Executes Two Men for Alleged Espionage for Israel
Yaghoub Karimpour and Naser Bakerzadeh were executed in Iran for espionage charges linked to Israel. Karimpour is identified as an Azerbaijani-Turkic man, while Bakerzadeh is…
Iran executes two political prisoners from ethnic minorities on spying charges for Israel
Iranian authorities executed two political prisoners, Naser Bakrzadeh (Kurdish) and Yaghoub Karimpour (Azeri), on May 2, 2026, on charges of spying for Israel. Rights groups…