Hengaw, the Norway-based Iranian human rights monitor, confirmed on Monday the execution of Ali Fahim at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj. Fahim's family was not notified in advance, Hengaw reported. His hanging is the fourth execution in a single protest-related case prosecuted through the same branch of the Karaj Revolutionary Court. The war-era execution tally reached at least 404 by Hengaw's tracking.
Ghezel Hesar, the largest prison complex in Alborz Province, has been the primary node for the protest-case docket since the February war began. A single case producing four executions inside roughly a month compresses the standard appeal window at Iran's Supreme Court, which normally runs six to twelve months on capital cases. Hengaw has documented the pattern in three previous protest-related cases this year: charges filed, Revolutionary Court verdict, Supreme Court summary affirmation, execution inside weeks. The 404 war-era total runs against a pre-war annual figure of 975 recorded by Iran Human Rights; the war is producing executions at roughly twice the pre-war monthly rate.
Hengaw confirmed two executions at Ghezel Hesar and the custodial death of Yavari in Shiraz last weekend, and the Fahim case now extends that pattern. Iran's nationwide information blackout hands the state the operational enabler it needs: families learn of executions from Hengaw's Telegram channel rather than from judicial notifications, and legal representation in protest cases has collapsed as lawyers lose contact with clients in the absence of video-conferencing court access. The execution pace is visible outside Iran only because Hengaw and Iran Human Rights Documentation Center still have informants inside the prison system; that pace is not transmissible to the Iranian public in real time.
