Four defendants were sentenced to death over the Seyyed Al Shohada mosque fire in Pakdasht, near Tehran, in January 2026, in which two people died. On Monday 27 April 2026, the Iran Supreme Court upheld the convictions of three teenage men, Ehsan Hosseinipour Hesarloo, Matin Mohammadi and Erfan Amiri, and referred their cases to the unit responsible for carrying out final rulings. The National, citing Hengaw and HRANA, reported that execution could occur within days. The fourth defendant, Maryam Hodavand, 45, is held at Evin Prison in Tehran with her appeal still pending.
Hengaw is a Kurdish human rights organisation that publishes execution names within hours of carriage; HRANA, the Human Rights Activists News Agency, is an Iranian NGO running the same beat. Both organisations confirmed the sentences and the denial of independent legal counsel. The 'final-rulings unit' is the administrative office that sets the carriage date once the Iran Supreme Court has upheld a sentence; once a case sits there, the execution window is typically days. Defendants are usually moved to Ghezel Hesar Prison, near Karaj, for carriage.
This is a parallel protest-era capital case to that of Ali Fahim and his co-defendants tracked in the prior briefing, not the same docket. The teenage co-defendants' ages activate Article 37 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which prohibits capital punishment for offences committed under the age of 18 and which Iran ratified in 1994 with reservations. Hengaw's wartime political-execution tally now runs alongside this docket; Erfan Kiani's execution on 25 April was the eighth political prisoner put to death since the war began per Hengaw's 24 April count. The denial of independent counsel adds a procedural front to ongoing UN Special Rapporteur engagement on Iranian capital cases. Hodavand's pending appeal opens a narrow window for international representations; the men's cases sit with the carriage office.
The Pakdasht fire occurred during the January 2026 protests Iranian authorities have framed as an internal security crisis. The case docket has moved through the courts at wartime tempo: a January incident yielded death sentences inside three months and a Supreme Court confirmation by Day 59 of a 60-day shutdown that has limited family access to legal records.
