Three Death Sentences—Just for Wanting to Live?
July 7, 2025 – Human Rights
F-RASULI
In today’s Iran, justice is neither found in courtrooms nor spoken by judges, nor is it upheld by the law. What happened in Branch One of the Revolutionary Court in Urmia, presided over by Judge Reza Najafzadeh, was not a trial and not a verdict—it was revenge. Revenge by a regime terrified of its own people’s voice of protest.
Five citizens from Bukan:
Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri (42),
Ali (Soran) Ghasemi (28),
Kaveh Salehi (40),
Pezhman Soltani (30),
and Tifour Salimi Babamiri (47)
have been sentenced to death on charges such as baghi (armed rebellion), moharebeh (enmity against God), and forming a criminal group. In the legal language of the Islamic Republic, these terms have one clear meaning: whoever raises their voice must be silenced—with death.
Pezhman Soltani, Soran Ghasemi, and Kaveh Salehi have even been sentenced to death three times — as if one execution isn’t enough. Rezgar Babamiri faces two death sentences, and Tifour Salimi Babamiri one, in addition to lengthy prison terms and a combined fine of (over $6,000 USD).
This is not the implementation of justice. This is a display of state power—by a government afraid of its own people.
From “Baghi” to Starlink
The charges against these five men are as strange as they are revealing: collaboration with the Israeli government? Smuggling Starlink satellite devices? Propaganda against the regime? Conspiracy?
This list reads more like an intelligence report than a legal indictment.
Pezhman Soltani has also been sentenced to death for “direct involvement in murder,” while Rezgar Babamiri and Soran Ghasemi were found guilty of “ordering the killing.” According to Kurdish Human Rights Network, these accusations were based entirely on forced confessions obtained under severe torture.
Shockingly, these sentences were issued by the Juvenile Criminal Court of West Azerbaijan—an institution supposedly meant to protect minors, not hand down death sentences to adults.
Kaveh Salehi was acquitted of murder in one case, yet still received three death sentences in another. The contradictions are endless.
Court or Execution Factory?
The entire legal process was neither transparent nor fair. These individuals were held incommunicado for months, tortured, and finally forced to sign “confessions” they did not write—statements that formed the core of their prosecution. No independent lawyers were permitted to review the evidence.
Judge Reza Najafzadeh, like many judges closely tied to Iran’s security apparatus, plays a familiar role: handing down brutal sentences to crush the chant of “Woman, Life, Freedom.”
The Goal: Fear, Silence, Obedience
These sentences uphold no justice, serve no law. They have one purpose only: to instill fear, silence dissent, and break the will of a people who refuse to live under lies anymore.
But this time, the people are not silent.
The names of Pezhman Soltani, Soran Ghasemi, Kaveh Salehi, Rezgar Babamiri, and Tifour Salimi Babamiri are no longer confined to Bukan or Kurdistan. Their plight has crossed borders, their stories echo beyond prisons and courtrooms.
We Do Not Forget. We Do Not Stay Silent.
When death becomes a political tool, it eventually consumes the very system that wields it. Every drop of blood spilled on this land only deepens the roots of freedom.
Pezhman, Soran, Kaveh, Rezgar, Tifour—
You are not alone.
The people stand with you.
And the voice of the people cannot be executed—not even three times.
SHORESH
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