Ebrahim Farhadi Topkanlou

Ebrahim Farhadi Topkanlou was reportedly executed on narcotics charges at Torbat-e Heydarieh Prison in Khorasan Razavi province on 19 May 2026, according to Hengaw, a Kurdish human rights organisation that monitors executions and detentions inside Iran. His case brought Khorasan Razavi province into what Hengaw described as the wartime judicial record, extending the documented execution geography beyond the prison clusters at Birjand, Tabriz, Kerman, and Gorgan that Hengaw had previously recorded.

Beyond the facts documented by Hengaw, Farhadi Topkanlou's personal background, age, and family circumstances are not on the public record. Iran does not publish judicial execution notices for those convicted on drug charges, and Hengaw's documentation is typically drawn from family contacts and local sources. Drug-related capital sentences have been a persistent feature of the Iranian judicial system and have continued throughout the conflict period, documented alongside executions on espionage and murder charges.

The execution is one of a cluster of capital punishments documented by Hengaw on 19 May 2026, alongside the execution of Saeid Rahmanirad on murder charges at Shiraz Prison and the simultaneous detention of writer Majid Karimi, indicating parallel judicial and security operations.