Ali Fahim

Ali Fahim was 23 years old when he was executed at Ghezel Hesar prison on 6 April 2026. His family received no prior notice. His name appears in a list of 13 confirmed political executions carried out in the 18 days between 19 March and 6 April — a period when Iran's internet blackout, then at its 1,008th consecutive hour, provided cover for the regime to act without outside scrutiny. Iran Human Rights Monitor documented the cases.

Fahim was a protest detainee, arrested during the wave of demonstrations that followed the outbreak of the 2025-26 Iranian conflict. The executions — at least 14 confirmed at Ghezel Hesar and Qom Central Prison — follow a pattern established during the 2022 Mahsa Amini protests, when the Islamic Republic used wartime and unrest to clear protest-related cases through summary proceedings. The youth of the victims (multiple executions of detainees under 25) has drawn particular condemnation from international human rights bodies.

Fahim's case is individually documented but represents a wider phenomenon. The Hengaw casualty report published in the same update recorded 7,650 killed across 40 days of war including 189 minors. The convergence of battlefield deaths, civilian casualties, and domestic political executions under internet blackout makes independent verification deliberately difficult — which is precisely the point of the blackout.