HRANA News Agency – Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou, a political prisoner from Chaldoran, was executed secretly without his family’s knowledge. Judicial authorities summoned his family to the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Urmia, where they informed them that his execution had been carried out after he was transferred to Tehran.
According to HRANA, citing Fars News Agency, Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou, a political prisoner, has been executed.
Last night, his family was summoned to the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Urmia and informed that his execution had been carried out following his transfer to Tehran. They gathered in front of Urmia Prison, demanding the return of their son’s body.
Kurdpa News Agency reported that, hours after the official announcement of the execution, the family still has no information about the exact time and location of the execution, and they have not yet received his body.
Over the past week, the family and close relatives of this political prisoner repeatedly gathered in front of Urmia Prison and the Urmia Judiciary, demanding clarification of his situation and the halt of his death sentence.
In the early hours of Saturday, April 19, Fars News Agency, affiliated with security institutions, published a video of the prisoner’s forced confessions, attempting to accuse him of “baghi” (armed rebellion). In the video — recorded under unknown circumstances — Mr. Hosseinnezhad is seen participating in a staged reenactment of an alleged “armed operation at the Chaldoran border.”
Mr. Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou, who had recently been moved to solitary confinement in Urmia Prison, was transferred to an unknown location on April 17.
His death sentence had been previously upheld by Branch 9 of the Supreme Court and officially communicated to him at Urmia Prison on March 26, 2025.
In late July 2024, he had been sentenced to death by Branch 1 of the Urmia Revolutionary Court on the charge of “baghi” through alleged membership in an opposition group. Throughout all stages of his trial, he was denied access to legal counsel.
A source close to his family had earlier told HRANA:
“Mr. Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou rejected all charges during his trial and stated that on the day of the alleged clash, he was traveling to Turkey with his family.”
This political prisoner had been arrested on April 13, 2023, at the Chaldoran border by border guards. After several hours of interrogation at the Border Guards’ detention center, he was transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence’s detention facility in Urmia, where he endured 11 months and 10 days of physical and psychological torture aimed at extracting forced confessions about participation in an armed clash between border guards and members of an opposition party.
Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou, born in 1985, was the father of three children and had been working as a border tradesman in Chaldoran in recent years to provide for his family.
