In a new barbarous act on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, Iran’s regime hanged five political prisoners—Farhad Shakeri, Taj Mohammad Khormali, Abdolrahman Gorgij, Abdolhakim Azim Gorgij, and Malek Fadaei—in Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad. The executions were carried out without prior notice or a final visit with their families.

These five prisoners were arrested in 2015 and, in 2019, sentenced to death by the notorious Judge Davoodabadi at Branch One of the so-called “Revolutionary Court” in Mashhad on charges of “rebellion.” Three of their co-defendants—Hamid Rastbala, Kabir Saadat Jahani, and Mohammad Ali Arayesh—who were also arrested in 2015, were executed........

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