Overview

• Mojahed Kourkour, an ethnic Lur protester, was arrested in December 2022 and executed on June 11, 2025, for the alleged killing of a ten-year-old boy during nationwide unrest.
• Amnesty International and eyewitnesses assert that Kourkour was not at the protest where the boy died and that Iranian security forces fired the fatal shots.
• Human rights groups report that Kourkour was subjected to torture and forced into a televised confession before facing a trial that lacked due process.
• His execution raises to at least eleven the number of people put to death in connection with the 2022 protests, and Tehran has carried out over 550 executions in the first five months of 2025.
• Political detainees in more than 30 prisons have held weekly hunger strikes since January 2024 to protest the executions and demand fair trials.