24 December 2025 :

December 23, 2025 - IRAN. The execution of Javad Vafaei has been suspended 

Political prisoner

Babak Paknia, the defence lawyer, said earlier that the Supreme Court had issued an order to halt the execution of Mohammad Javad Vafaie Sani. The death sentence had recently been reaffirmed by the Supreme Court following the rejection of a request for a retrial (see HoC 06/12/2025).

The death sentence of Javad Vafaie Sani, according to some sources a sympathiser of the People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK), had been overturned twice by the Supreme Court.The death sentence had recently been reaffirmed by the Supreme Court following the rejection of a request for retrial.

The death sentence of Javad Vafaie Sani had previously been overturned twice by the Supreme Court. However, in recent months it was upheld by Branch Nine of the Supreme Court. Following this decision, his lawyer submitted another request for retrial, which was ultimately rejected. Mr. Vafaie Sani was most recently sentenced to death in September 2024 by Branch Three of the Mashhad Revolutionary Court on the charge of “corruption on earth.”

This 28-year-old political prisoner and boxing coach was arrested in Mashhad in March 2020 and transferred to Vakilabad Prison. In the initial stage of proceedings, he was also sentenced to death by the Mashhad Revolutionary Court on charges of “corruption on earth through deliberate destruction.” That verdict was overturned by the Supreme Court, and the case was referred to a parallel branch for reconsideration. In the second trial, a death sentence was again issued, which was likewise overturned by the Supreme Court in June 2024. On Vafaei's case see also HoC 09/01/2022, 12/02/2024, 09/01/2025, 06/10/2025 and 06/12/2025.

https://www.en-hrana.org/execution-sentence-of-seyed-mohammad-javad-vafaie-suspended/