HRANA – The judiciary’s media center announced that at dawn today, Saturday, April 4, the death sentences of Abolhassan Montazer and Vahid Bani-Amerian, political prisoners held in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, were carried out.

According to Mizan, the judiciary’s media center, the sentences were carried out this morning, Saturday, April 4, after being upheld by the Supreme Court. On Sunday evening last week, Vahid Bani-Amerian and Abolhassan Montazer had been transferred to solitary confinement in Unit One of Ghezel Hesar Prison.

The death sentences of Bani-Amerian and Montazer, along with four others, had previously been issued on the charge of armed rebellion (baghi) through membership in anti-government groups. In July of last year, the Supreme Court overturned this ruling and referred their case to a parallel branch.

In November, 2025, they were retried in Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Iman Afshari. Ultimately, on Sunday, December 7, 2025, the same branch reissued the death sentence for these political prisoners and formally notified their lawyers.

The two political prisoners were arrested by security forces in Tehran in December, 2023. They were held for a period in Evin Prison before later being transferred to Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj.

The judiciary further claimed regarding the actions of these political prisoners that: “Abolhassan Montazer, son of Seyed Jafar, was one of the main members of a team affiliated with the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK). Using financial resources, he arranged safe houses for the activities of members of this group and accommodated certain related individuals in these locations. According to the case file, these houses were used as sites for building launchers and improvised bombs, and the rent was paid through funds received in cryptocurrency.”

Continuing these allegations, Vahid Bani Amerian, son of Mohammad, was also identified as one of the members of this team. It was stated that: “He was arrested alongside Abolhassan Montazer while they were allegedly preparing to carry out an operation using a launcher, and four launcher devices were reportedly discovered in their possession.”

It was also claimed that: “After reestablishing contact with this group, he first engaged in propaganda activities and later took part in several operations against various locations.”

Montazer was reportedly among the political prisoners of the 1980s, and Vahid Bani-Amerian had also previously faced conviction and imprisonment because of his activities.

According to HRA’s annual report, in 2025, at least 2,488 citizens, including 63 women and 2 juvenile offenders, were executed. Of these, 13 executions were carried out in public. During the same period, 130 other individuals, including 10 women and 1 juvenile offender, were sentenced to death.