DUBAI (April 2): A man convicted of participating in an attack on a classified military ​facility during January's protests in Iran was ‌executed on Thursday, the judiciary's news outlet Mizan said, after his appeal was rejected and the Supreme Court upheld ​his sentence. The judiciary said Amirhossein Hatami was found ​guilty of entering a restricted military site in ⁠Tehran, damaging and setting fire to the facility, ​and attempting to seize weapons and ammunition — charges ​he admitted during interrogation, Mizan reported. The first deputy chief of the Judiciary, Hamzeh Khalili, said last month that cases linked to ​January protests — a nationwide anti-government movement repressed in ​what authorities described as the biggest crackdown in the Islamic ‌Republic’s ⁠history — had been finalised and sentences were being implemented. Hatami was among 11 men referred to by rights group Amnesty International as being at imminent risk of execution ​and who had ​been "subjected to ⁠torture and other ill-treatment in detention, before being convicted in grossly unfair trials ​that relied on forced confessions." Last month, ​Iran executed three ⁠men convicted of killing two police officers during January protests, raising concern among rights groups such as ⁠Hengaw ​that Tehran is intensifying executions against ​political detainees and protesters amid mounting military and international pressure.

Source: The Edge Markets April 02, 2026 10:02 UTC