The Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran HRM) released its monthly report for July 2025, revealing a serious deterioration and sharp escalation in the Iranian regime's systematic human rights violations. The report documented 108 executions, including two political prisoners, as well as violent attacks on inmates in Ghezel Hesar Prison and the issuance of new death sentences for political dissidents.

Wave of Executions and Executions of Political Prisoners
According to the report, July saw 108 executions, including three public executions in the cities of Bukan, Miandoab, and Damghan. This repression culminated at dawn on Sunday, July 27, with the executions of political prisoners Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani, supporters of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The report indicated that the two men were subjected to severe physical and psychological torture in the notorious Ward 209 of Evin Prison and were sentenced to death in sham trials on charges such as "enmity against God." After the executions, the authorities refused to hand over their bodies to their families and secretly buried them in an unknown location, a practice the organization described as "an additional layer of psychological torture."

Attack on Qezel Hesar Prison
The report documented a brutal and coordinated attack by Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and intelligence officials on political prisoners in Ward 4 of Qezel Hesar Prison on July 26. The report described this attack as an "act of collective punishment" carried out hours before the executions of Ehsani and Hassani. The prisoners were severely beaten, dragged, and their personal belongings were destroyed, all with the aim of paving the way for the executions and dismantling the "No to Executions Tuesdays" campaign, which had spread to 48 prisons.

Forced Exile and the Enduring Message of Saeed Masouri
The report highlighted the case of Saeed Masouri, one of Iran's longest-serving political prisoners, who spent 25 years in prison without a single day of leave. He was forcibly and violently transferred from his prison to Zahedan Prison with the aim of exile. In a courageous letter, Masouri denounced the move, describing it as a "kidnapping" and warning that it was reminiscent of preparations for "another silent massacre like 1988."
New Death Sentences and Imminent Danger
The Observatory expressed grave concern over the issuance of new death sentences against other political prisoners, supporters of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), including Farshad Etemadifar, Masoud Jamei, Alireza Modarasi, and Yaghoub Derakhshan. These sentences were issued by revolutionary courts that lack even the most basic standards of justice and are based on trumped-up charges such as "rebellion" and "enmity against God."
Urgent Call to the International Community
The Iranian Human Rights Observatory concluded its report with an urgent call to the international community, including the UN Human Rights Council and the European Union, to demand an immediate halt to executions in Iran, condemn the arbitrary sentences, pressure the regime to release all political prisoners, dispatch an international fact-finding mission to investigate prison conditions, and hold regime officials accountable for their crimes against humanity.