Mohammadamin Biglari, a 19-year-old computer-science student, and Shahin Vahedparast Kalour, 30, were hanged at dawn on 5 April at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj without a final family visit, after trials lasting under a month1. Both were arrested on 8 January 2026. The documentation was filed by Hengaw, the Kurdish human rights monitoring organisation that has tracked this caseload through the war, and brings the Iranian political-prisoner execution tally since the war began to at least 13, three of them within four days during the declared ceasefire window.
The timing matters more than the total. A ceasefire declared on Truth Social on 8 April should, at a minimum, freeze the state's active measures against its own citizens for the period it is in force. Three executions inside that window, two of them attributed by Hengaw to Ghezel Hesar alone, establish that the Iranian judicial machinery is not treating the ceasefire as a constraint on domestic repression. It is operating at wartime tempo behind prison walls while the diplomatic text it is responding to does not formally exist.
Ghezel Hesar in Karaj has been the primary execution site tracked by Hengaw through this period, and the profile of the two men hanged on 5 April (young, civilian, trials shorter than four weeks, no family visit permitted) matches a documented pattern across the 13-case sample. The practical function of publishing the Hengaw filing around the two-week anniversary of the ceasefire is to make that pattern visible before the 22 April ceasefire window closes and any tally compiled during the window becomes the metric diplomats inherit.
For European governments weighing engagement, the documentation creates a specific record. A diplomatic off-ramp that ignores 13 documented executions inside a ceasefire is politically harder to sell to legislatures that monitor Iranian human rights reporting; one that conditions engagement on the executions stopping creates a new criterion Tehran has not been asked to meet.
