Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Ahvaz, presided over by judge Ehsan Adibi-Mehr, has sentenced Mohammad Mahdi Parsa, a 21-year-old protester of the Dey 1404 uprising, to death. The sentence was issued on 2 November 2026 and made public on Sunday 8 November.
The court issued the death sentence on a charge of "moharebeh" (waging war against God), citing "participation in the destruction of a state bank" in Ahvaz. Mohammad Mahdi Parsa was also sentenced to 10 years in prison for "taking part in illegal gatherings" and to another 10 years for "collaborating with hostile states". A source close to him said he was denied a lawyer of his own choosing during the proceedings.
Background of the case
On the evening of 8 January 2026, during the Dey uprising protests in Ahvaz, a state bank in the city was damaged, after which judicial cases were opened against a number of protesters. Mohammad Mahdi Parsa, from Qaleh-Tol in Khuzestan province, was arrested in Ahvaz three days later, on 11 January, and is now held in Sheiban prison in Ahvaz. It is not yet clear whether his sentence has been reviewed by the Supreme Court.
A wave of death sentences against protesters
The sentence came in a week in which the Islamic Republic's judiciary has accelerated the execution of Dey uprising protesters. On Sunday 8 November the judiciary announced the execution of Hasan Divband, Hamid Kazemi and Reza Zangeneh, three protesters from Karaj. New details of the Shohada Square case in Isfahan also showed that 10 death sentences were issued on the basis of confessions extracted under torture.
In Mashhad, Mahboubeh Shabani has also been sentenced to death; one of the grounds cited for the sentence was taking wounded protesters to hospital on a motorcycle between 8 and 10 January. Her case is before the Supreme Court.
The Revolutionary Court of Ahvaz sentenced a 21-year-old protester to death over damage to a bank on a night of protest.
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