Three Isfahan Alikhani Square protesters at risk of execution at dawn Tuesday

Prince Reza Pahlavi's media office said on Monday night, 2 November, that the family of Amirhossein Ebrahimi Analoucheh, another man sentenced in Isfahan's so-called "Alikhani Square" case, has also been summoned to the prison for a final visit. Earlier, as DIAR's previous report noted, the families of Abolfazl Ebrahimi and Amirhossein Maleki, two 20-year-olds held in Isfahan's Dastgerd prison, had been called in for the same visit.

Human rights sources say the Islamic Republic intends to carry out the death sentences of Abolfazl Ebrahimi and Amirhossein Maleki in the early hours of Tuesday, 3 November. Prince Reza Pahlavi's office also named Shervin Bagherian and Ali Dashti, two other men sentenced in the same case, as prisoners at risk of execution, and urged Iranians to do everything they can to save their lives.

The Alikhani Square case: 12 death sentences, seven executions

The case goes back to clashes on 8 January 2026 in Alikhani Square in Isfahan's Malekshahr district during the Dey uprising. The Islamic Republic claims four security personnel were killed that night. Afterwards 59 protesters were arrested; the Revolutionary Court sentenced 12 of them to death and 23 to between five and ten years in prison.

So far seven of those sentenced in this case have been executed: Erfan Esfandiari and Gol-Mohammad Mohammadi, an Afghan national, on 19 July; Abolfazl Sepahi Badjani and Amirhossein Safari Hosseinabadi on 28 July; Ghaem Hosseini on 20 August; and Alireza Sepahi and Alireza Raeisi on 5 October.

A murder charge that was never tried

Shahrzad Shahbazi, a lawyer, rejected the state media's account on 9 October, writing that none of the defendants had been charged with murder and that, in her words, "in principle, the killing of none of the officers was ever examined by a competent court". UN experts and human rights organisations have repeatedly called for these executions to be halted and described the proceedings as unfair: brief hearings, denial of an independent lawyer, forced confessions under torture and hasty confirmation of the sentences by the Supreme Court.

Families in this case were summoned for final visits before earlier executions as well. On the same Monday, the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Arman Marefati, another detainee of the Dey uprising, and a day earlier Prince Reza Pahlavi's office had warned of the risk of execution facing Shahab Zohdi in Ghezel Hesar prison.

Seven of the 12 people sentenced to death in the Alikhani Square case have been executed, and the families of three more have been summoned for a final visit.