People with dual nationality are being put to death in Iran on dubious charges without clear standards of law and justice.
Justice & Anti-CorruptionMiddle East
- Omissions
- The claim could specify particular high-profile cases such as Ahmadreza Jalali (Swedish-Iranian), Jamshid Sharmahd (German-Iranian), or Alireza Akbari (British-Iranian), who were executed or sentenced to death.
- Sources available up to March 2026 document executions through 2023-2024, with ongoing patterns documented by human rights organizations.
- The sources do not provide a precise total number of dual nationals executed, but document multiple verified cases.
- Sources
- PrimaryIran Human RightsDocumentation of foreign and dual nationals executed in Iran in 2023, with Afghans constituting the largest group of non-Iranian executions
- PrimaryHuman Rights WatchIran's security apparatus has escalated targeting of Iranian dual citizens and foreign nationals, with documented cases of arrests and detentions
- PrimaryCenter for Human Rights in IranOngoing documentation of dual and foreign nationals facing detention, unfair trials, and execution in Iran
- PrimaryNIAC CouncilReports on high-profile cases including Pakhshan Azizi, Ahmadreza Jalali, Behrouz Ehsani, and Varishe Moradi, with dual nationals at risk
- SecondaryBBC NewsUnknown number of dual nationals in prison in Iran, with some serving long sentences and others sentenced to death