HRANA – At dawn today, October 5, Alireza Raisi, one of those arrested during the January 2026 protests and one of the individuals sentenced to death in the case known as the “Isfahan Alikhani Square” case, was executed at Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan.
Based on information obtained by HRANA, Alireza Raisi was executed at dawn today, Monday, October 5, 2026, at Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan.
An informed source close to the Raisi family told HRANA about the hours leading up to the execution, saying that Mr. Raisi met with his family for the final time on Sunday, October 4. At the end of the visit, he refused to part from his family, and prison authorities and officers ultimately separated him from them by force. According to the source, members of his family also gathered outside Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan last night, seeking information about his situation.
Mr. Raisi’s death sentence was carried out at the same time as that of Alireza Sepahi, another defendant in the case.
Alireza Raisi had previously been sentenced to death along with several other defendants in the case known as the “Isfahan Alikhani Square” case. At the trial-court stage, 15 defendants in the case were sentenced to death. According to information provided by an attorney, the sentence of one defendant was overturned by a higher judicial authority, while the death sentences of the other 14 defendants were upheld.
HRANA had previously confirmed the identities of several individuals sentenced in this case. They include Alireza Sepahi, Abolfazl Sepahi, Erfan Esfandiari, Gol-Mohammad Mohammadi, Amirhossein Safari, Ghaem Hosseini, Shervin Bagherian, Amirhossein Maleki, Ali Dashti, Abolfazl Ebrahimi, Alireza Raisi, and Amirhossein Ebrahimi Analoucheh.
The death sentences of several other defendants in this case had already been carried out. Erfan Esfandiari and Gol-Mohammad Mohammadi were executed on July 19. Abolfazl Sepahi and Amirhossein Safari were publicly executed at Alikhani Square in Isfahan at dawn on July 28. Ghaem Hosseini’s death sentence was also carried out in late August.
In previous reports on this case, HRANA documented restrictions on effective access by the defendants and their attorneys to the case files, the inability to obtain complete copies of the rulings, the court’s failure to give due consideration to certain defense evidence, and allegations of pressure and torture during the investigation.
