Photo: Iran Human Rights
Mehrab Abdollahzadeh
مهراب عبداللهزاده
2026
- Taken
- 3 May 2026
- From
- Urmia, West Azerbaijan
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Mehrab Abdollahzadeh was a young Kurdish man from Urmia, in West Azerbaijan, who worked as a barber. In the autumn of 2022, during the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising, he was arrested in Urmia.
In prison he stood up for others. Days before his execution he was moved to solitary confinement, in handcuffs and shackles, after a confrontation with a guard who, Hengaw reports, had insulted the families of political prisoners in the visiting hall.
How the regime took them
He was arrested on 22 October 2022 and, Iran Human Rights reports, tortured for 42 days to make him confess to a role in an attack on a man tied to the regime during the protests in Urmia. In court he said he had been tortured; he said the judge smirked and told him they had all learned to say that. On 19 September 2024 Branch 1 of the Urmia Revolutionary Court sentenced him to death for 'corruption on earth'. He was hanged in secret at dawn on 3 May 2026 in Urmia; Hengaw says inside the central prison. (Iran Human Rights and state media gave his age as 29; Hengaw gave 27.)
