The Iranian regime is set to execute four protesters, including a woman believed to be the first female prisoner to be executed by Tehran.
Iran continues its crackdown on people who took part in January’s bloody protests, in which citizens across the country took to the streets to resist the oppressive government.
Tehran’s Revolutionary Court announced that four people arrested after the mass uprising were sentenced to death.
They are Bita Hemati and her husband Mohammadreza Majidi-Asl, as well as two other people who lived in the same building as the couple, Behruz Zamaninejad and Kouros Zamaninejad.
Tehran has hanged seven people in connection with the protests, and Hemati is believed to be the first woman to be sentenced to death for the January uprising.
The charges against the four
The four detainees were charged with “operational action on behalf of the hostile government of the United States and hostile groups,” according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
They were also charged with “assembly and collusion against national security”. This group was also sentenced to five years in Iran’s hellish prisons and all their assets have been confiscated.
Notorious Iranian judge Imam Afshari claimed the group “injured security forces on the ground” and used “explosive materials and unspecified weapons” in the January 8 and 9 protests.
Human rights groups claimed that information showed that the couple and their two neighbors were pressured during their interrogations and there were concerns that they may have been forced into confessions.
The New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran said: “Dozens of people arrested during the January 2026 protests have been sentenced to death after grossly unfair, speedy trials conducted without due process, access to an independent lawyer and based on evidence of ‘confessions’ extracted under torture.”
