In the early hours of Sunday, April 5, the Iranian regime carried out the execution sentences of Mohammadamin Biglari and Shahin Vahedparast, two protesters detained in connection with the January protests. Mizan News Agency, the judiciary-affiliated media outlet of the Iranian regime, reported the news and said the charges against the two included acting against national security and attempting to gain access to military weapons.
According to the official statement released by the regime, the two were accused of attempting to storm the armory of a military center in Tehran during the January protests. The statement claimed that they entered a classified military site, took part in damaging and setting fire to the location, and tried to gain access to weapons and ammunition. It also said that during the same period, a group of protesters had allegedly tried to infiltrate military centers, including police stations and Basij bases—the Basij being the regime’s paramilitary force used for domestic repression—to obtain weapons.
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The case of Mohammadamin Biglari and Shahin Vahedparast was heard in Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Abolqasem Salavati, a judiciary figure widely known for handling political, protest-related, and so-called security cases. Their death sentences had been issued on February 7.
Reports indicate that on Tuesday, March 31, the two prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement along with several other defendants, including Amirhossein Hatami, Ali Fahim, and Abolfazl Salehi. Amirhossein Hatami, a teenager tried in the same case, was executed three days before the implementation of these two sentences. He had also faced similar charges, including participation in operational acts against national security, attempting to obtain weapons, and destruction of state property.
Earlier this week, six political prisoners affiliated with the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) had also been executed.
With the implementation of these sentences, Mohammadamin Biglari and Shahin Vahedparast are now identified as the eighth and ninth individuals executed over the past week. This trend has drawn widespread reactions from human rights organizations. Amnesty International had previously announced that at least 30 people, including two 17-year-old teenagers, are at risk of receiving death sentences in connection with the January protests.
In recent days, alongside rising military tensions and foreign airstrikes, reports have emerged of an increase in executions, a development that has heightened concerns among human rights activists about the possible intensification of this trend under the current crisis conditions.
