Iran hangs 2 protesters in public, crowd cries 'dishonorable' as security fires tear gas

Iran publically hanged 2 young men Tuesday implicit their alleged roles successful January's nationwide anti-government protests, arsenic onlookers chanted "Dishonorable, dishonorable!" earlier information forces fired teardrop state to disperse the crowd, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an exiled Iranian absorption group.

Abolfazl Sepahi Badjani and Amirhossein Safari Hosseinabadi were hanged Tuesday successful Isfahan's Shahid Alikhani Square — wherever authorities alleged they committed offenses connected to the Jan. 8 protests, according to the NCRI and Iranian authorities media.

The NCRI said onlookers condemned the executions earlier information forces fired teardrop state to disperse the crowd. The absorption radical besides said information unit had been deployed connected rooftops and surrounding streets.

Iranian authorities media besides reported the nationalist executions, Reuters said, with Iran's semi-official quality bureau Mehr saying they were carried retired successful Alikhani Square "in the beingness of a radical of people."

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Iran publically hanged Abolfazl Sepahi-Badjani Tuesday implicit his alleged roles successful January's nationwide anti-government protests (Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA))

"Fearing nationalist outrage implicit this brutal crime, the regime's suppressive forces had deployed agents successful the surrounding streets and connected rooftops," NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi said successful a connection shared connected X.

The executions people the latest escalation successful Iran's crackdown connected protesters arrested during the nationwide demonstrations that began successful precocious December and intensified successful January.

Human rights groups person accused Iranian authorities of denying defendants owed process, relying connected coerced confessions and carrying retired executions aft unfair trials.

Iran's judiciary, meanwhile, accused Badjani and Hosseinabadi of participating successful the Jan. 8 sidesplitting of 4 members of the State Security Force during demonstrations successful Shahid Alikhani Square.

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Amirhossein Safari Hosseinabadi was hanged Tuesday successful Isfahan's Shahid Alikhani Square — the aforesaid determination wherever helium had joined anti-government demonstrations months earlier. (Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA))

According to the judiciary's Mizan quality agency, Badjani and Hosseinabadi were convicted of moharebeh, oregon "enmity against God," efsad-fil-arz, oregon "corruption connected Earth," arsenic good arsenic demolition and arson of nationalist property, and acts that led to the deaths of 4 officers. Authorities besides accused them of possessing firearms and Molotov cocktails.

The NCRI claimed Tuesday that the defendants were denied the close to take their ain lawyers, and adjacent their court-appointed attorneys were denied entree to the lawsuit files.

Iran publically hanged Abolfazl Sepahi-Badjani Tuesday implicit his alleged role successful January's nationwide anti-government protests.

The judiciary, however, said the men had ineligible representation, appealed their convictions and were convicted utilizing constabulary reports, cellphone evidence, witnesser testimony, confessions and a transgression country reconstruction. 

The brace were said to beryllium among 12 protesters sentenced to decease successful what has go known arsenic the Alikhani Square case.

Two different defendants, Erfan Esfandiari and Gol Mohammad Mohammadi, were executed July 19, bringing the full fig of executions successful the lawsuit to four.

The U.N. experts warned this week that the remaining defendants look an imminent hazard of execution.

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Protesters march successful downtown Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 29, 2025. (Fars News Agency via AP)

"The young men, aged betwixt their precocious teens and aboriginal 20s, were reportedly arbitrarily deprived of their liberty, successful immoderate cases being subjected to enforced disappearance, ill-treated and accused of engagement successful the sidesplitting of 4 information unit members, arsenic good arsenic arson and vandalism during the Jan. 8, 2026, protests successful Shahid Alikhani Square successful Isfahan," U.N. experts said successful a statement.

The connection besides said each defendants were sentenced to decease during a azygous closed-door proceeding without clarity astir each individual's alleged responsibility, calling the proceedings a usurpation of planetary just proceedings standards.

Human Rights Watch said this week that astatine slightest 50 radical person been executed implicit the past 4 months connected what it described arsenic vague nationalist information charges.

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"By resorting erstwhile again to the medieval signifier of nationalist hangings, the Islamic Republic is trying to instill fearfulness passim nine and deter aboriginal protests," Iran Human Rights Director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said successful a station shared connected X.

"Public executions are a cruel signifier of authorities panic that the planetary assemblage indispensable not tolerate," helium added.

The protests crossed Iran began successful precocious December amid a deepening economical situation earlier expanding into 1 of the largest anti-government movements successful the Islamic Republic's history.