Overview
- Rights groups say Iran has resumed wartime executions since March and that roughly three dozen men have been hanged on charges tied to protests, membership of banned groups or espionage.
- The judiciary confirmed the recent execution of Gholamreza Khani Shakarab for alleged cooperation with Israel’s Mossad, a case the state says was upheld by the Supreme Court and carried out on Tuesday.
- Human-rights monitors reported the hanging of Abbas Akbari for an alleged armed attack on a government building during January protests in Isfahan province, with rights groups describing the move as intimidation.
- Amnesty International and other NGOs warn at least 78 protesters, dissidents or people with suspected links to banned groups remain under death sentence and face immediate risk of execution.
- Rights groups and UN monitors raise serious due-process concerns, citing secretive wartime courts, restricted lawyer access, alleged coerced confessions and a pattern that they say aims to deter future protests, while a few death sentences have been overturned on appeal.