Urmia; Mehrab Abdollahzadeh, Kurdish Political Prisoner and Detainee of the Woman Life Freedom Revolutionary Uprising, Executed
May 3, 2026; On the morning of Sunday, May 3, 2026, Mehrab Abdollahzadeh, a Kurdish political prisoner and one of the detainees of the "Woman, Life, Freedom" revolutionary uprising, was secretly executed by the Islamic Republic.
Mizan News Agency, affiliated with the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic, wrote without mentioning the location of the execution of this Kurdish political prisoner that “the death sentence of Mehrab Abdollahzadeh was implemented this morning after the completion of legal formalities.”
April 28, 2026; Mehrab Abdollahzadeh was transferred from Urmia Prison to an unknown location under the pretext of an altercation with prison guards during a visit.
February 17, 2026; The retrial request of this Kurdish political prisoner was rejected by Branch 39 of the Supreme Court, and despite the registration of a subsequent retrial request, Branch 39 of the Supreme Court refused to issue an order to halt the execution of the verdict.
December 30, 2025; The execution of Mehrab Abdollahzadeh was temporarily halted, and his case was referred back to the Supreme Court for re-examination. This verdict, which had previously been confirmed by the Supreme Court on November 16, 2025, and referred to the Criminal Judgment Enforcement Unit of Urmia Prison after becoming final, was reviewed again by the Supreme Court following an objection by the case lawyers and the submission of a new defense bill.
December 20, 2025, Kurdpa published; Branch 9 of the Supreme Court has confirmed the death sentence of Mehrab Abdollahzadeh, who is held in Urmia Central Prison.
December 24, 2025; Following the confirmation of his death sentence by the Supreme Court and the serious risk of implementation, the family of Mehrab Abdollahzadeh released a video message requesting urgent help from human rights organizations and global officials, calling for the halt of the execution and a re-examination of the case in a fair and transparent judicial process. Mehrab’s father, mother, and brother, emphasizing his innocence, spoke of the difficult and critical conditions of the family and the oppression and injustices inflicted upon him during detention and judicial proceedings. Referring to physical and mental torture, the absence of valid evidence against him, and judicial pressures leading to forced confessions, they emphasized the need for immediate intervention by international organizations to prevent the implementation of this unjust sentence. Mehrab's family stated that their demand is not merely to halt the death sentence, but for a fair re-examination of the case based on actual evidence.
On December 25, 2025, in an exclusive report based on a conversation with one of Mehrab Abdollahzadeh's relatives, reliable field information, and a careful review of the verdict issued by Branch 9 of the Supreme Court as well as the documents from the court of first instance, Kurdpa addressed the details of this case. It announced that Mehrab Abdollahzadeh is under serious and imminent risk of execution while a series of warning signs—including the verdict becoming final and enforceable in the Supreme Court, the referral of the case to the Criminal Judgment Enforcement Unit, and the blocking of his bank card, which according to Iranian judicial procedure usually occur on the eve of an execution—have severely increased concerns for the life of this political prisoner. This is while, based on these investigations, his death sentence was issued and confirmed following an entirely unfair process; a process that extended from arbitrary detention and torture to obtaining forced confessions, deprivation of the right to access a lawyer, ignoring the defendant's defense, disregarding requests for the examination of technical evidence, and finally issuing and stabilizing the verdict based on the "Knowledge of the Judge." This resulted in a verdict filled with flagrant contradictions; contradictions that were not only left unresolved but, instead of being interpreted in favor of the defendant's life, were used to stabilize the death sentence. This has turned the case into a clear example of the systematic use of torture and security scenario-building in the judicial process, where confessions under torture replaced independent evidence, the personal opinion of the judge replaced truth-finding, and a political prisoner, as the only available defendant, fell victim to a case in which dozens of other defendants were never prosecuted or held accountable.
