Death Sentence Issued for 62-Year-Old Political Prisoner Karim Khojasteh in Rasht

8 December 2025
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Karim Khojasteh, a 62-year-old political prisoner, supporter of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), an industrial machinery production engineer, and a former political prisoner from the 1980s, has been sentenced to death by Iran’s judiciary in the city of Rasht.
Karim Khojasteh, a 62-year-old political prisoner, supporter of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), an industrial machinery production engineer, and a former political prisoner from the 1980s, has been sentenced to death by Iran’s judiciary in the city of Rasht.

This ruling is part of the regime’s ongoing policy of repression, intimidation, and physical elimination of political opponents, placing the life of a long-time prisoner in grave danger.

Once again, we state clearly: revolutionaries are not eliminated by executions and mass killings—such crimes do not extinguish resistance; they multiply it. History bears witness to this truth.