Hengaw, the Norway-based Kurdish human rights monitor, documented two further executions in Iran on Thursday 30 April on drug-related charges1. On Wednesday 29 April a woman was hanged at Tabriz central prison, described by Hengaw as a victim of forced marriage. The 29-30 April figures push the wartime execution register higher than the count of 17 political executions logged on 24 April.
The drug-charge executions sit in a different statistical bucket from the political-prisoner cases tracked since the war began. Hengaw separates the categories because the legal architecture differs: drug-trafficking convictions in Iran flow through Revolutionary Courts under post-2017 amendments to the Anti-Narcotics Law that retain the death penalty for trafficking above 30 kg of opium or 2 kg of synthetic narcotics. The political cases, including Erfan Kiani executed on 25 April and Jafar Fakhrabadi executed at Yazd Central Prison on 27 April, pass through national security charges of moharebeh and efsad-e fel-arz. The Tabriz hanging is the third category: a woman sentenced under personal-status charges, with Hengaw documenting the underlying forced-marriage context.
The register also carries the unresolved weight of the mosque-fire case, in which Iran's Supreme Court has upheld three death sentences for Ehsan Hosseinipour Hesarloo, Matin Mohammadi and Erfan Amiri. The Pakdasht arson in January killed two and the convictions, on Hengaw's account, rest on confessions extracted under torture. The Supreme Court upheld the sentences on 27 April; Kiani's execution followed his appellate decision quickly, as did Fakhrabadi's, and the three defendants now sit in the unconfirmed-but-imminent column.
The pace tracks the war's external rhythm. As the Senate's WPR challenges and the Treasury's sanctions cadence have run on weekly cycles, Hengaw's count has logged roughly one to two executions per week through April. The 29-30 April figures preserve the rate. Iran's domestic repression has used the wartime cover to clear backlogs of cases the judiciary held during peacetime political pressure; the pattern is consistent across the eight weeks of the campaign. The open question is whether the three mosque-fire defendants are executed in the immediate days ahead.
