Loghman Moradi
A young Kurdish man arrested in 2009, tortured and ultimately executed in 2018 following a trial and sentencing that human-rights organisations say were deeply flawed.
10/25/20251 min read
Loghman Moradi was born in 1983 and is of Kurdish ethnicity. He, along with his cousin Zanyar Moradi, was arrested on 2 August 2009 in Marivan, Kurdistan Province, Iran for alleged involvement in the killing of the son of a local Friday-prayer imam.
He was held for many years in detention, including at Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, where he was reportedly tortured. On 23 February 2014, for example, credible sources state he was transferred to hospital with internal bleeding after being severely beaten.
On 8 September 2018, he was executed along with Zanyar and another prisoner. The execution followed denunciations by human rights groups that the trial lacked transparency, that family and lawyers were not given prior notice, and that confessions may have been coerced.
Moradi’s case underscores how the Iranian regime uses broad security charges (such as “moharebeh” or enmity against God) to criminalise Kurdish activism or suspected dissent, regardless of any proven violence, and how ethnic Kurdish individuals are frequently caught in the cross-hairs of these methods.
