Ali-Sina Mostafavi
Kerman mountaineer Iran hanged on 14 October 2026 after convicting him of wartime armed attacks.
Iran hanged Ali-Sina Mostafavi on 14 October 2026. The judiciary says he fired on civilians and conscripts in Kerman for Israel and Reza Pahlavi; Pahlavi says he was condemned on confessions extracted under torture.
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Ali-Sina Mostafavi, a mountaineer and musician from Kerman, was hanged by Iran on 14 October 2026. A court had convicted him of moharebeh, or "enmity against God", over armed attacks in the city during the war with the United States and Israel, Reuters reported.
Mizan, the judiciary's news outlet, said he fired on civilians in Kerman's Azadi Square on 24 March and on conscripts and passing vehicles on 21 April. It said he acted for the exiled opposition figure Reza Pahlavi and for Israel, and called him one of "the armed agents of the American-Zionist enemy". No Independent source has verified the judiciary's account.
Pahlavi called him "a patriotic young man" condemned on confessions extracted under torture. Amnesty International condemned the execution of five men in one week in cases linked to the January protests.
Executions continued after Mostafavi's hanging
Before he was hanged on 14 October 2026, Mostafavi was moved to solitary confinement and his family was called for a final visit. In the days after his death, Amnesty International counted at least 20 more death sentences upheld since April over January's uprising. On 16 October it warned that more protest-related executions could come soon.
That warning held within three weeks of his hanging. On 3 November Iran hanged two 20-year-old men in Isfahan who had been arrested in January's protests. The rights group Hengaw says one of them, a medical student, was tortured into confessing, the same charge Pahlavi made about Mostafavi's case.
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