Execution of a Prisoner in Yazd Prison
5-November-2025
Category: executions
5 November 2025
News Category: Executions
Breathing in Confinement — The death sentence of at least one prisoner, previously arrested on the charge of transporting narcotics, was carried out in Yazd Prison.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, at dawn on Wednesday, 5 November 2025, a prisoner identified as Vahid Arman was hanged in Yazd Prison.
Vahid Arman, from Kermanshah and married, had been arrested and sentenced to death for transporting narcotics. Sources state he was paid 50 million tomans to carry a load that contained drugs; throughout his detention he maintained he was unaware of the contents. He was transferred to solitary confinement the morning before the execution, and the sentence was carried out at dawn on Wednesday, 5 November 2025.
No official report
As of the time of this report, the execution of this prisoner has not been announced by official sources.
Annual Report on Executions in Iran
According to the annual report by the Statistics Centre of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, at least 1,170 individuals were executed in Iran in 2024. Among them, six people were executed in public, and the executed also included 38 women and 9 juvenile offenders.