{"id":7010,"date":"2025-10-15T18:30:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/?p=7010"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:30:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:30:02","slug":"executions-following-opaque-rushed-proceedings-three-armed-robbery-defendants-hanged-in-ghezel-hessar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/executions\/executions-following-opaque-rushed-proceedings-three-armed-robbery-defendants-hanged-in-ghezel-hessar","title":{"rendered":"Executions Following Opaque, Rushed Proceedings: Three Armed-Robbery Defendants Hanged in Ghezel Hessar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>15 October 2025<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Category: Executions \u2013<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Breathing in Confinement \u2013<\/strong> The death sentences of at least three prisoners convicted by the Tehran Revolutionary Court of \u201cmoharebeh (enmity against God) through armed robbery\u201d were carried out in Ghezel Hessar Prison, Karaj.<\/p>\n<p>According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran, at dawn on Wednesday, 15 October 2025, three prisoners were hanged. Their identities have been identified by Breathing in Confinement as <strong>Majid Hatami, Sajjad Hatami, <\/strong>and <strong>Amir-Reza Ghobadi<\/strong>. On Saturday, 11 October, the outlet reported that the trio had been transferred to solitary confinement ahead of execution.<\/p>\n<p>Sources indicate that Majid Hatami (26), the father of a young son, Sajjad Hatami, and Amir-Reza Ghobadi, all from Kuhdasht, were arrested about a year ago in a joint case on charges of armed robbery. Majid and Sajjad are reported to be paternal cousins, and Amir-Reza Sajjad\u2019s nephew. The case involved five suspects; three were arrested during a police chase while two others escaped.<\/p>\n<p>During the judicial process, the three were sentenced to death by Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Abolghasem Salavati. Reports describe the proceedings as unfair, rushed, and non-transparent. By the time the sentences were carried out, the status and alleged roles of the two fugitives in the case had still not been clarified.<\/p>\n<p>The executions were ultimately carried out at dawn on Wednesday, 15 October 2025, in Ghezel Hessar Prison, Karaj.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>No official report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As of the time of this report, the execution of these prisoners has not been announced by official sources.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Annual Report on Executions in Iran<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the annual report by the Statistics Centre of the Prisoners\u2019 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 15 October 2025 Category: Executions &ndash; Breathing in Confinement &ndash; The death sentences of at least three prisoners convicted by the Tehran Revolutionary Court of &ldquo;moharebeh (enmity against God) through armed robbery&rdquo; were carried out in Ghezel Hessar Prison, Karaj. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners&rsquo; Rights League in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-executions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yHPi-1P4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7012,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010\/revisions\/7012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}