Gholamreza Khosravi Savadjani

Gholamreza Khosravi Savadjani (15 July 1965 – 1 June 2014) was a political prisoner in Iran who was executed on 1 June 2014. His execution was highly controversial due to accusations that Khosravi did not receive due process or fair treatment during his trial or leading up to his death.

Background Khosravi hailed from Abadan, a city in southwest Iran. He was a known sympathizer of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (known frequently and interchangeably by the abbreviations MEK, PMOI, or MKO), which is a comparatively progressive political-militant organization focused on interpreting Islam in a way that politically promotes tolerance, democracy, and social and gendered equality, countering the more conservative government in power in Iran. According to the Human Rights Watch, Iranian officials consider MEK to be a terrorist organization.

Khosravi was targeted repeatedly for his involvement with the organization, with his legal troubles beginning with the start of his involvement with the group in the 1980s. after serving five, during which he endured 40 months of solitary confinement in various detention centers, including Kerman's Ministry of Intelligence and the notorious Evin Prison. Human rights organization Iran Human Rights accused Iranian officials of subjecting Khosravi to physical and psychological torture to extract information from him, some of which may have been coerced and unreliable. Soltani was sent to Evin Prison's Ward 350, where he shared a cell with his former client. Subsequent to the assault, Khosravi was transferred to a solitary confinement cell for nearly two weeks. He was refused any medical treatment despite the severity of his wounds. Even in that condition, Khosravi staged a hunger strike with other prisoners who had also been forced into solitary confinement, protesting to be moved out of solitary confinement and back to Ward 350. After 23 days and a worldwide campaign, guards obliged, and the hunger strike ended. However, one informed Khosravi that he was to be executed imminently. Iran Human Rights posited that Khosravi's execution, which was indeed scheduled soon after the hunger strike, may have been in retaliation against the political prisoners' resistance and protest of the 17 April assault.

Khosravi was transferred to the Quarantine Section of Raja'i Shahr Prison of Karaj on 28 May 2014. Three days later on 31 May, the day before his execution, he was placed in solitary confinement for one last time as preparations for his execution were underway. Soon after his move to the prison, his family members were notified that they could visit him. Only after the visit were they notified that it would be their last visit with him and that his execution was scheduled for dawn the next morning.

The unusual and sudden timing for the family visit, combined with Khosravi's transfer to Raja'i Shahr Prison, alerted human rights organizations to the impending execution. On 31 May, Amnesty International released a statement and a last-minute plea calling Khosravi's impending execution "a violation of international and national laws." They demanded that the Iranian regime halt his execution immediately while the Deputy of Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa sector, Hasibeh Haj-Saraei, released a separate statement announcing that "the Iranian authorities are about to execute a man who has been denied a fair trial."

Nevertheless, on 1 June 2014, Khosravi was executed by hanging in Raja'i Shahr Prison. He was buried in Esfahan in central Iran as officials from the Ministry of Intelligence watched. Only one of his family members was permitted to attend the burial.