HRANA – At dawn today, August 19, the death sentence of a prisoner convicted of murdering four members of a family in Beyram was carried out in public in Larestan, Fars province.

HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists in Iran, has identified the executed prisoner as Sajjad Molaei Hekani.

According to information obtained by HRANA, in October of last year, Molaei Hekani, together with his wife, murdered a mother and her three children in Beyram during a robbery. Following his conviction, he was sentenced to public execution, while his wife, Mahsa Akbari, received a death sentence.

The Judiciary’s news agency reported: “The defendants were tried and convicted by Branch 5 of the Criminal Court One of Fars Province. Their sentences were later upheld by the Supreme Court, and the sentence of Ms. Akbari will be carried out inside prison in the presence of the victims’ family.”

In 2024, Iranian prisons witnessed the execution of 930 inmates. According to HRANA’s data, the number of executions carried out by the Iranian regime’s judiciary has risen steadily over the past five years.