The execution of Jamshid Sharmahd, an Iranian-German citizen convicted of “corruption on earth,” was carried out early Monday, October 28, 2024.
According to the Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, the sentence against Jamshid Sharmahd, a dual Iranian-German citizen previously convicted of charges including “corruption on earth,” was enforced early Monday, October 28, 2024. The judiciary’s media center announced the execution but did not specify its location.
In February 2023, the Revolutionary Court in Tehran sentenced Sharmahd to death, a sentence upheld by the Supreme Court in May 2024. His charges included “planning and directing terrorist acts.”
Sharmahd’s case was reviewed by Branch 15 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Abolghasem Salavati, and examined by both civil and criminal courts.
Previously, official media quoted security officials claiming that the Ministry of Intelligence had detained the “second-in-command” of the group “Tondar.” The Ministry later identified this person as Jamshid Sharmahd.
Ghazaaleh Sharmahd, the dual citizen’s daughter, previously stated that the family had been uninformed about the case’s progress and her father’s detention location, and that the family’s chosen attorney was not permitted access to the case. She also reported her father had been held in solitary confinement and forced to sign documents.
Born in 1955, Jamshid Sharmahd held Iranian and German citizenship and resided in the United States. After the disappearance of Forood Fouladvand, founder of the Kingdom Assembly, in 2006 in Turkey, Sharmahd claimed partial leadership of the Assembly, although the group’s then-spokesperson refuted this claim.