On Sunday, February 23, 2025, the Iranian regime’s Supreme Court rejected the retrial request for death sentences issued against Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani, placing them at imminent risk of execution.
A group of UN Special Rapporteurs issued an urgent statement today: https://x.com/UN_SPExperts/status/1894337492200947932
Amnesty International issued a statement on January 27, 2025: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/8975/2025/en/
They have strongly condemned the death sentences against Mehdi Hassani (48 – father of three) and Behrouz Ehsani (70 – father of two), calling them grossly unjust and demanding their immediate revocation.
I have agreed to politically sponsor Mehdi Hassani and call for an end to the regime’s barbaric and systematic use of the death penalty.
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Statement by Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani at Imminent Risk of Execution Following Supreme Court Rejection of Retrial Request
Urgent Call for Action by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Human Rights Council, and Special Rapporteur
On Sunday, February 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of the Iranian regime rejected the retrial request for death sentences issued against Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani, placing them at imminent risk of execution.
Behrouz Ehsani, 70, a former political prisoner from the 1980s, was arrested in Tehran on December 5, 2024, and transferred to Ward 209 of Evin Prison, where he was subjected to torture. Following his death sentence, he sent a message to the people of Iran, stating: “This execution-driven regime knows nothing else. I will not bargain over my life. I am prepared to give my humble life for the freedom of the Iranian people.”
Mehdi Hassani, 48, a father of three, was arrested on September 11, 2022, in Zanjan and taken to Evin Prison’s Ward 209, where he was subjected to severe torture.
Amnesty International has strongly condemned the death sentences against Mehdi Hassani and Behrouz Ehsani in statements issued on January 16 and January 23, calling them grossly unjust and demanding their immediate revocation.
The Iranian Resistance once again urges the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Human Rights Council, and the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran to take urgent action to stop the executions of Behrouz Ehsani, Mehdi Hassani, and other political prisoners on death row.
24 February 2025
