Uncle and Nephew Ahmad and Sina Shamsollahi Hanged for Drug Offences

According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were hanged in Qazvin (Choobindar) Central Prison on 25 February 2026. Their identities have been established as 56-year-old Ahmad Shamsollahi and 29-year-old Sina Shamsollahi, an uncle and nephew from Tabriz. They were sentenced to death on drug-related charges by the Revolutionary Court.

An informed source told IHRNGO: “Sina and Ahmad were arrested for carrying around 40 kilogram of drugs on the Qazvin highway around two years ago. Ahmad was a father of two. Prison authorities didn’t inform their families for last family visits, they were executed without saying goodbye to their families.”

At the time of writing, their executions have not been reported by domestic media or officials in Iran.

Drug-related executions have continuously risen every year since 2021. According to IHRNGO’s 2024 Annual Report on the Death Penalty, at least 503 people were executed for drug-related charges, of which only under 3% were announced by official sources. 17% of all drug-related executions in 2024 were Baluch minorities while they represent 2-6% of Iran’s population.

In December 2025, IHRNGO published a report titled “A Village of Graves: Widespread and Systematic Drug Executions in Iran,” which provides an overview of drug laws and documents the systematic violation of due process and fair trial rights in drug cases.