On Saturday, October 3, Iran’s state-run news agency Mizan reported the execution of six Arab political activists in Khuzestan Province.
The names of the men were not mentioned in the official report, placing these killings in the category of “secret executions.” According to the judiciary, they had been convicted of charges including “killing security officers, links with Israel, separatism, bombings and armed attacks.”
The authorities also accused them—without presenting evidence—of involvement in the Khorramshahr gas station explosion, armed assaults on banks, grenade attacks on a military center, and shootings at mosques.
Human rights group Karun later identified the executed prisoners as Ali Mojadam, Moein Khanfari, Seyed Salem Mousavi, Mohammadreza Moghadam, Adnan Alboshoka (Ghobishavi), and Habib Deris. They had been arrested between late 2018 and early 2019 and sentenced to death by the Ahvaz Revolutionary Court.
Sources said that on Friday evening, October 2, Deris and Mousavi were quietly transferred from Sheiban Prison in Ahvaz to Sepidar Prison, where they were executed at dawn the next day together with the four others—without any prior notice to their families.
The men were accused of membership in the Arab opposition group Harakat al-Nidal and of killing two Basij members in Abadan and two security officers in Bandar Imam Khomeini.
Human rights monitor HRANA reported in March 2023 that the defendants had also “confessed” to financial dealings with the group’s leaders in Europe—confessions widely believed to have been extracted under duress.
Amnesty International had earlier warned that the mass trial of these men was grossly unfair, noting that they were denied access to lawyers and that their death sentences violated international human rights standards.
