Iran executes another protester detained in January ahead of talks in Islamabad
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iranian authorities early Tuesday executed another protester detained during the January nationwide protest in which thousands of protesters were killed, reported Tasnim news.
Amir Ali Mir Jafari was one of tens of thousands of protesters detained in January when people across the country staged a nationwide protest calling for the end of the Islamic Republic.
“In dealing with spies, traitorous elements, and foot soldiers of the aggressor, our posture is fully combative and aligned with wartime requirements,” Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei said in a Monday post on X.
Late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei issued a crackdown order, after which thousands of protesters were killed and many more were wounded. At least 20,000 protesters and bystanders were detained.
The bodies of hundreds of protesters in bodybags in a morgue in southeast Tehran shocked the world when the Islamic Republic regime killed thousands of protesters on January 8 and 9 in a space of 48 hours.
Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said on Tuesday that Mir Jafari was accused of setting a mosque on fire with a group of other protesters. He was also accused of collaboration with the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad. Tasnim said that Mir Jafari had confessed to the charges.
Human rights organisations say Iran regularly uses torture and inhuman treatemnt to force detainees to confess to crimes such as collboation with Israel which they have not committed.
Since the beginning of the air campaign against Tehran by Israel and the US on February 28, around a dozen political prisoners, including protesters from January, have been executed.
The Iranian delegation is expected to travel to Islamabad in Pakistan to hold the second round of talks with the US delegation headed by Vice president JD Vnace.
Human rights organisations are warning that if the Islamic Republic survives, it will carry out a new wave of executions.
In their 2025 annual report published on Monday, Iran Human Rights (IHR) and Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM) said Tehran carried out 1,639 executions last year, some in public squares in the presence of children.
Amir Ali Mir Jafari was one of tens of thousands of protesters detained in January when people across the country staged a nationwide protest calling for the end of the Islamic Republic.
“In dealing with spies, traitorous elements, and foot soldiers of the aggressor, our posture is fully combative and aligned with wartime requirements,” Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei said in a Monday post on X.
Late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei issued a crackdown order, after which thousands of protesters were killed and many more were wounded. At least 20,000 protesters and bystanders were detained.
The bodies of hundreds of protesters in bodybags in a morgue in southeast Tehran shocked the world when the Islamic Republic regime killed thousands of protesters on January 8 and 9 in a space of 48 hours.
Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said on Tuesday that Mir Jafari was accused of setting a mosque on fire with a group of other protesters. He was also accused of collaboration with the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad. Tasnim said that Mir Jafari had confessed to the charges.
Human rights organisations say Iran regularly uses torture and inhuman treatemnt to force detainees to confess to crimes such as collboation with Israel which they have not committed.
Since the beginning of the air campaign against Tehran by Israel and the US on February 28, around a dozen political prisoners, including protesters from January, have been executed.
The Iranian delegation is expected to travel to Islamabad in Pakistan to hold the second round of talks with the US delegation headed by Vice president JD Vnace.
Human rights organisations are warning that if the Islamic Republic survives, it will carry out a new wave of executions.
In their 2025 annual report published on Monday, Iran Human Rights (IHR) and Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM) said Tehran carried out 1,639 executions last year, some in public squares in the presence of children.