The criminal regime of the Islamic Republic, after executing four political prisoners—Mohammad Taghavi Sangdehi, Akbar Daneshvar Kar, Babak Alipour, and Pouya Ghobadi—who were hanged in Qezelhesar Prison on March 30 and 31, has committed yet another crime. On April 2, 2026, the regime also hanged Amir Hossein Hatami, an 18-year-old youth, in Qezelhesar. Amir Hossein had been arrested after participating in the December 2025 protests in Tehran.
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Amir Hossein, along with six other young men, was arrested on charges of “setting fire to the Kaveh Basij base in Tehran.” Mohammad Amin Biglari, Ali Fahim, Abolfazl Salehi Siavashani, Shahin Vahedparast Kalvar, Shahab Zahdi, and Yaser Rajaei-Far are the other defendants in this case. They were also sentenced to death by the notorious judge Abolghasem Salavati. No new information is available about the condition of these six individuals. They too face a serious and imminent risk of execution.
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Amir Hossein Hatami is the eighth political prisoner executed over the past two weeks. Saleh Mohammadi, Saeed Davoudi, and Mehdi Ghasemi were executed on March 19 in Qom. Mohammad Taghavi and Ali Akbar Daneshvar Kar were executed on March 30, and their co-defendants, Pouya Ghobadi and Babak Alipour, on March 31. The Islamic Republic also hanged Vahid Bani Amerian and Abolhassan Montazer, two other individuals from this six-person case, on April 3, 2026.
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All of them were executed in retaliation for the popular uprising in January and with the aim of instilling fear and terror in society. As always, the handling of these cases has not complied with the principles of fair trial. In fact, the courts of the Islamic Republic are not courts of justice, but courts of injustice. Political prisoners in these courts are denied access to lawyers of their choice and are not informed in advance of the charges against them, which are typically prepared by interrogators and torturers. These courts rely on forced confessions obtained under torture. The judges are fully aware of these conditions and issue their rulings based on information provided by interrogators. They are complicit, alongside prosecutors and interrogators, in the killing of political prisoners.
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This timeline shows that not only has the number of executions increased, but the interval between them has also decreased, accelerating under the cover of war. We must raise our voices more forcefully against executions, repression, and killing, and call on progressive forces in the countries where we live, as well as global human rights defenders, to put pressure on the criminal regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran to abolish death sentences in Iran.
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The Association of Iranian Political Prisoners (in Exile), strongly condemns the executions of Amir Hossein Hatami, Vahid Bani Amerian, and Abolhassan Montazer. Execution in any form is state killing and must be stopped.
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The Islamic Regime of Iran should be overthrown by the Iranian people, without foreign intervention.
No to executions, no to imperialist-Zionist-reactionary war.
Long live the social revolution.
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Association of Iranian Political Prisoners (in Exile)
April 4, 2026