At dawn today, Tuesday, November 10, 2026, the death sentence of "Irshad Abbasi," a young Kurdish man from the village of "Ziyarat-e Tamarkhan" in Salas-e Babajani County, Kermanshah Province, was carried out in Dieselabad Central Prison in Kermanshah.

Nearly two years ago, "Irshad Abbasi" was arrested by law enforcement forces on charges of "murder" and subsequently sentenced to death by the judiciary. In recent months, his death sentence was upheld, and the victim's family refused to grant pardon (rezayat). Prior to the execution of his sentence, during a phone call with his mother—the video of which was published on social media—he asked for his family's forgiveness.

"Irshad Abbasi" was the son of Shabnam Bahrami and Saleh Abbasi, and a member of the "Aali" clan of the "Babajani" tribe.

As of the drafting of this report, the execution of this prisoner's death sentence has not been announced by domestic Iranian media or official sources.

In the structure of Qisas [retribution-in-kind] punishments within the laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran, all forms of "intentional murder" carry only a single punishment—namely, Qisas-e Nafs [retributive execution]—and factors such as self-defense, unintentional brawl, the circumstances of the crime's occurrence, the defendant's motive, or their psychological and social state do not exert a decisive influence on the core penalty. The failure to differentiate between degrees of murder, regardless of the severity, mitigation, or motive of the offense—which ultimately leads to the issuance of death sentences—on the one hand, and the delegation of the right to deprive life to the next-of-kin (awliya-ye dam) on the other, conflicts with Iran's international obligations under Articles 6 and 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), particularly regarding the right to life and the right to a fair trial. Furthermore, this structure stands in sharp contrast with state constitutional duties specified in Articles 22 and 156 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran concerning the preservation of physical security and the realization of public justice.
Because the execution of Irshad Abbasi's sentence has not been announced by any domestic media or official sources as of the publication of this report, this concealment and lack of transparency—beyond denying the possibility of public oversight and verification of due process—further underscores the urgent necessity for fundamental legal reforms in grading homicide offenses and overhauling the current framework of Qisas-e Nafs.