Iran’s judiciary said Tuesday it executed two men after the Supreme Court upheld their death sentences in a case tied to January protests in Isfahan, drawing renewed scrutiny from rights groups.
Mizan, the judiciary’s news agency, said Amirhossein Maleki and Amirhossein Ebrahimi were convicted on national-security grounds of moharebeh (“enmity against God”) and efsad fel-arz (“corruption on earth”). Mizan tied the case to Jan. 8 events in Isfahan and said four law-enforcement officers died.
Hengaw Organization for Human Rights reported that the executions took place at Isfahan Central Prison, also known as Dastgerd Prison, in what it called the Alikhani Square case. It said 12 defendants received death sentences and counted Maleki and Ebrahimi among nine defendants executed in total.
Hengaw’s Nov. 3 account identified the second man as Amirhossein Ebrahimi and attributed the execution announcement to Mizan. But Iran Human Rights’ statement from Nov. 2 named Abolfazl Ebrahimi as scheduled for execution, while separately identifying Amirhossein Ebrahimi as a defendant whose appeal had been rejected.
Iran Human Rights Director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said defendants were mistreated and pressured to incriminate themselves, and that the proceedings lacked fair-trial safeguards.
Iran Human Rights said it had recorded at least 691 executions in Iran from Jan. 1 through Oct. 31, 2026. The group said 34 people in its tally were executed in cases connected to January’s protests and two in cases linked to the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests.
