IRAN - 5 ‘protesters’ sentenced to death in Mashhad

November 8, 2026 - IRAN. 5 ‘protesters’ sentenced to death in Mashhad
Abolfazl Sadaghat Ali Zaghi, Ilia Akbari, Vahid Khedri-khah, Matin Farnian

Other sources, and HoC, had already reported the sentences against Vahid Khedri-khah and Matin Farnian. 

Fresh details regarding the issuance of death sentences and judicial cases of 5 detainees of the January 2026 protests in Mashhad have been published. Abolfazl Sadaghat, Vahid Khedri-khah, Matin Farnian, Ali Zaghi, and Ilia Akbari have been sentenced to death.

Abolfazl Sadaghat, 20, has been identified as the third defendant sentenced to death in a joint case in Mashhad.-

(Other sources, and HoC, had already reported that the third man would be Matin Shabani).

Sadaghat, along with Matin Farnian, 23 years old, and Vahid Khedri-khah, 34 years old, was sentenced to death on charges of “Moharebeh” by Branch 5 of the Mashhad Revolutionary Court, headed by Judge Hossein Yazdankhah.

These three individuals were arrested on January 19 and 20, 2026, and are currently being held in Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad.

According to an informed source, Abolfazl Sadaghat was deprived of access to chosen legal counsel and has a court-appointed lawyer.

Ali Zaghi and Ilia Akbari, two other detainees of the January protests, have been sentenced to death in the case known as “Shandiz.”

They were tried along with Mehdi Zarif, Matin Shabani, Hossein Rasouli-nasab, and Hassan Golshan-nejad.

Branch 5 of the Mashhad Revolutionary Court, headed by Hossein Yazdankhah and with counselor Seyed Reza Javad-Mousavi, issued the death sentences for Ali Zaghi and Ilia Akbari.

The charges in the case include “Moharebeh” through participation in destroying public property and setting fire to religious centers, as well as “assembly and collusion against national security.”

The sentences for these two prisoners are preliminary, and both are being held in Vakilabad Prison.