Sasan Azadvar

Sasan Azadvar, 21, a karate champion from Isfahan, was executed at Dastgerd Prison at dawn on 30 April 2026. He had been detained during the 9 January 2026 protests and convicted of attacking State Security Force personnel and inciting riots. His lawyer stated publicly that no credible evidence supported the charges and that his confessions were extracted under torture, a pattern Hengaw documented across multiple cases in the same cohort . He was the tenth protester from the December 2025 and January 2026 demonstrations to be executed during wartime .

Azadvar was 20 years old at the time of his arrest. His case became significant within the protest-execution register because his identity as a competitive athlete broadened the documented profile beyond the ethnic minorities who had predominated in earlier executions. Iran Human Rights confirmed his execution alongside its count of 22 political executions in the six weeks since 19 March 2026, a rate of roughly one every two days, the fastest sustained political-execution cadence since the 1988 prison massacres.

The execution occurred on the same day as Khamenei's 'new management' Hormuz statement and the WPR 60-day deadline, compressing multiple major narratives into a single calendar day. Iran's internet blackout, still registering at approximately 2% of normal connectivity as of 30 April, meant the news reached international audiences via Hengaw's documentation rather than domestic Iranian media . The mosque-fire Pakdasht defendants, whose Supreme Court-upheld death sentences were confirmed in the prior update, remain pending execution alongside Azadvar's cohort.