Mohsen Langarneshin Hanged for “Espionage for Israel” in Ghezelhesar Prison Group Hanging

According to the Judiciary’s Mizan news agency, Mohsen Langarneshin was hanged in Ghezelhesar Prison on 30 April 2025. He was sentenced to death on charges of “moharebeh and efsad-fil-arz through espionage for Israel” by Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by “Death Judge” Salavati. 

In a video prior to his execution, Mohsen’s father, Massoud Langarneshin said: “Mohsen was wrongfully entangled in a case. A case full of flaws, ambiguities and questions which were unfortunately left unanswered despite our efforts.”

“Mohsen was detained for 23 months. He was in Evin Prison for 20 months, 12 of which were in Ward 209, and he was in Karaj’s Ghezelhesar Prison for the remainder. Mohsen was tried in Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court by Judge Salavati and sentenced to death. We appealed three times, and all three were denied,” his father added.

In a recorded phone call from Evin Prison, Mohsen had said: “The day I was arrested on 3 July 2023, they took me to a safehouse where I stayed until 7am the next morning. There, I was subjected to threats, insults, and extremely intense psychological games. They threatened me to the point where they said they had obtained a disciplinary order to take me for torture and flogging in the morning unless I confessed to what they wanted. I was under threat all night to write down whatever the interrogators wanted, and they even said if I wrote what they were telling me, they would release me.

In the next session, they said, ‘For now, we’ve brought your mother and sister to Ward 209. Write down everything we ask so we can release them.’ They asked me to write that I took a motorbike and placed it under Choobi Bridge for filming. But I never did that, and I never even went there. They took me to that very spot, under Choobi Bridge, at 6 in the morning with several armed agents and said, ‘Repeat what we say so we can film it.’ Under threats and pressure from the agents, I was forced to say everything they told me. I said I placed a motorbike there and filmed, and other nonsense like that.

The strange thing is that throughout this process, they kept insisting I say I bought a motorbike and placed it there with a camera, but there was never any mention of what kind of motorbike it was, where it came from, or what model it was. They just told me to say, ‘I bought a motorbike, mounted a camera on it, and went to film.’ That was very odd.

After I resisted making these forced confessions (I said I wouldn’t confess), they took me to a school yard, chained my hands, feet, blindfolded me and filmed me. They told me, ‘This video is for before your execution, which will happen in a few days. If you write the confessions we want, maybe we’ll have mercy and change your sentence to life imprisonment.’ Then they filmed again, put a paper in front of me, and told me, ‘You have to read everything written here.’ So I sat in front of the camera, and I read it.”

More than 100 people have been executed in April. In a statement issued on 4 April, IHRNGO warned of the upcoming execution spike in the shadow of the Iran-US nuclear talks. IHRNGO will be publishing another report about those executed in Ghezelhesar Prison with Mohsen Langarneshin.