Children and adolescents sentenced to death, at risk of execution, or executed in Iran

Since the uprising of January 2026, the Islamic Republic of Iran has sentenced children to death. Some have already been hanged. Others are waiting.

The children and adolescents named below were aged eighteen or under when they were arrested. They were detained for taking part in protests. Against them, the state has brought charges that carry the death penalty — moharebeh (“waging war against God”) and efsad-e fel-arz (“corruption on earth”) — and in many cases the evidence consists of confessions extracted under torture, some of which have been broadcast on state television.

Article 37(a) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Article 6(5) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights both prohibit the death penalty for offences committed by anyone under eighteen. Both are binding on Iran. There is no exception in either instrument, and none in any circumstance.

We publish these names because a name is harder to ignore than a number.

Sentenced to death

Mohammad Hossein Shokri, 16 — Tehran
Shayan Hadyan, 17 — Isfahan
Amirhossein Varghami, 17 — Karaj
Abolfazl Ebrahimi, 17 at arrest — Isfahan
Erfan Amiri, 17 — Pakdasht, Tehran
Mansour Jafari, 17 — Isfahan
Matin Mohammadi, 17 — Pakdasht, Tehran
Kamelia Nazari, 17 — Shiraz
Danial Niazi, 18 — Shirvan, North Khorasan
Ehsan Hosseinipour Hesarlou, 18 — Pakdasht, Tehran
Mohammad Amin Rahbar, 18 — Manjil, Gilan
Melika Azizi, 18 — Masal, Gilan
Shervin Bagherian, 18 — Isfahan
Niloufar Esfahani, 18 — Qazvin

At risk of a death sentence

Emad Hamidi, 15 — Ahvaz
Diana Taherabadi, 16 — Karaj
Abbas Nio Bajizehi, 16
Abolfazl Moradi, 16 — Isfahan
Ahoura Safayi, 16 — Gorgan
Ali Eyvazi, 16 — Ahvaz
Alireza Masnou, 16 — Gorgan
Arin Movafaghi, 17 — Borujerd, Lorestan
Azim Mohammadi, 17 — Chahbahar, Baluchistan
Borhan Sami-Kia, 17 — Tehran
Yasin Ghasemi, 17 — Qahjavarestan, Isfahan
Mehdi Nasiri, 17 — Tehran
Mohammad Dianati, 17 — Isfahan
Sam Barkhuni, 17 — Fuladshahr, Isfahan
Taha Alimirzaei, 17 — Saveh
Somayeh Nazari, under 18 — Kermanshah
Mohammad Zeyghami, 18 — Tehran
Arshia Afshar, 18 — Isfahan
Reyhaneh Karami Moghaddam, 18 — Sirjan
Setayesh Saedi, 18 — Isfahan
Shadi Mousavi Rokati, 18 — Ahvaz
Abolfazl Dokht, 18 — Rasht
Habib Adabi, 18 — Gonabad
Misagh Rahmatzadeh (Kharkouhi), 18 — Zahedan
Mohammad Afshangi, 18 — Rasht
Morteza Zamani, 18 — Semnan
Mohammad Javad Esmaeili, 18 — Rostamabad, Gilan

Executed

Amir Nourollahi, 18 — Eslamshahr, Tehran — executed 22 February 2026
Amirhossein Hatami, 18 — Tehran — executed 2 April 2026
Erfan Esfandiari, 18 — Isfahan — executed 19 July 2026

Compiled from the records of the Campaign to Free Political Prisoners in Iran and the Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners, cross-checked with Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), and independent lawyers and activists inside the country. Names and ages have been verified against multiple sources. Information current as of 7 August 2026; figures and legal statuses may change rapidly.

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