Torbat-e Heydarieh Prison

Torbat-e Heydarieh Prison is a provincial detention facility in Torbat-e Heydarieh, a city in Khorasan Razavi province, northeastern Iran. On 19 May 2026, the prison entered the wartime judicial record when Ebrahim Farhadi Topkanlou was executed on narcotics charges — the first documented execution at this facility in Lowdown's wartime register and part of the broader geographic expansion of Iran's wartime execution pattern.

Prior to the 19 May entry, the wartime execution register had expanded progressively through Karaj (Ghezel Hesar), Isfahan, Shiraz, Tabriz, Kerman, Birjand, and Gorgan. The Torbat-e Heydarieh entry — alongside simultaneous executions at Shiraz Prison the same day — indicates continued geographic diffusion across Iran's prison estate. By 19 May 2026 Hengaw had confirmed Iran executed at least 30 individuals on politically charged or wartime-related convictions, with 13 confirmed from the January 2026 protest cohort. Drug-charge executions are documented separately but run in parallel with political executions in the wartime period.

Minimal independent information is publicly available about Torbat-e Heydarieh Prison specifically; most documentation comes from Hengaw, the Kurdish human rights organisation that monitors Iran's prison system. Hengaw's methodology relies on sources inside the prison system and corroboration with families of the condemned. The prison is not listed in international human rights databases as a high-security political detention facility; its appearance in the wartime record on 19 May reflects either a change in policy or the continuation of a broader pattern of provincial prison use for expedited executions.