Hengaw, the Norway-based Kurdish rights monitor, documented the secret execution of Mohammad Amini Dehaghani at a prison in Isfahan province on 15 July, a detainee from the January 2026 protests whose arrest and trial were never made public.1
The judiciary-linked Mizan agency said Dehaghani was accused of setting fire to a governor's office during the protests but did not disclose the capital charge. Hengaw says he was denied an independent lawyer and in-person family visits, and that nothing about his case surfaced until state media announced the execution after the fact.2 Two more prisoners tied to earlier uprisings were hanged on 16 July, at Karaj and Isfahan, three executions in two days.
Dehaghani's case is distinct from the death sentence handed to Arghavan Fallahi on 1 July. These hangings proceed while the world's attention fixes on the strait and the strikes, and Tehran clears its protest docket unseen. Hengaw reports 12 more Isfahan detainees whose files reached the Revolutionary Court's enforcement unit on 5 July, which points to more executions to come rather than an isolated week.
