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Iran has executed a 19-year-old and a 30-year-old for their involvement in the January anti-regime protests.
Mohammadamin Biglari, 19, and Shahin Vahedparast Kalour, 30, were put to death at Ghezel Hesar Prison at dawn on Sunday, April 5. They were among at least 25 men arrested during the protests who faced the death penalty, with more than half a dozen others executed last week.
Mahmoud Amiry-Moghaddam, director of Iran Human Rights, warned that many more executions could follow unless international pressure is applied to the regime.
“These daily executions, carried out under the shadow of war, are part of a deliberate policy to terrorize the Iranian people and prevent new protests,” he told the Mail, after the newspaper reported the stories of both men on Saturday. “The Islamic Republic’s main threat is not foreign bombs—it is the Iranian people demanding fundamental change. We fear for the lives of political prisoners and hundreds of detained protesters in the coming days and weeks.”
Mr. Biglari and Mr. Kalour were denied final visits and the chance to say goodbye to their families before their executions.
The two men were arrested during the protests on January 8 and accused of arson at the base of the Basij paramilitary force. Mr. Biglari’s father spent three weeks searching through the bodies of thousands killed by the regime before learning his son had been detained, despite his ill health.
Both men reportedly “confessed” after weeks in prison, where torture is widely reported, and were brought before the Revolutionary Court in Tehran on February 6.
They were convicted of Moharebeh, or “enmity against God,” and sentenced to death by the notorious “Death Judge” Abolghassem Salavati.
Others convicted of the same charge by Salavati that day included Abolfazl Siavashani, 51; Shahab Zohdi, 38; Ali Fahim, 23; Yaser Rajaifar; and Amirhossein Hatami, 18. Amirhossein, a talented musician, was executed last Wednesday.
Concerns are now mounting for Mr. Fahim and Mr. Siavashani, who were reportedly moved to pre-execution solitary confinement alongside Mr. Biglari and Mr. Kalour last week, according to Mail Online.
