Iran to execute first female protester tied to anti-regime unrest

Iran is group to execute its first female protester tied to nan January 2026 uprising successful Tehran, according to aggregate quality authorities organizations. 

Bita Hemmati was named successful a corporate decease sentencing alongside 3 different defendants, including her husband, Mohammadreza Majid-Asl, 34, according to nan National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and nan Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).

The couple’s reported neighbors, Behrouz Zamaninejad and Kourosh Zamaninejad, were besides sentenced to death, while a relative, Amir Hemmati, received 5 years successful prison.

The verdicts people immoderate of nan astir caller superior reward decisions amid nan government’s broader crackdown connected suppressing unrest. Possibly thousands of protesters person reportedly been killed since demonstrations erupted this year.

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Iranians stitchery while blocking a thoroughfare during a protestation successful Tehran, Iran connected Jan. 9, 2026.   (MAHSA / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

"Mohammadreza Majidi-Asl and Bita Hemmati are a mates surviving in Tehran, and Amir Hemmati is simply a comparative of nan two," a root told HRANA. "Kourosh Zamaninejad and Behrouz Zamaninejad were surviving successful nan aforesaid residential building, and their arrests took spot simultaneously."

No execution day has yet been given.

The Tehran Revolutionary Court reportedly accused nan defendants of aggregate offenses, including nationalist information disruption successful relationship pinch nan "hostile authorities of nan United States," according to HRANA.

On Jan. 8 and 9, nan defendants allegedly utilized explosives and weapons, threw objects specified arsenic actual blocks and incendiary materials from rooftops, injured information forces, and engaged successful "propaganda against nan regime" successful an effort to undermine security, according to national authorities.

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In this framework drawback from video obtained by nan AP extracurricular Iran, a masked demonstrator holds a image of Iran's Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi during a protestation successful Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (UGC via AP)

Alongside nan superior reward verdicts, nan tribunal besides issued 5 years of discretionary imprisonment and ordered nan seizure of their individual assets. 

Officials added that nan 5th associate, Amir Hemmati, was specifically convicted of "assembly and collusion against nationalist security" and "propaganda against nan regime," nan groups said.

Human authorities activists further raised concerns that nan defendants’ confessions whitethorn person been coerced, citing allegations of torture and interrogation.

Mourners clasp pictures of nan precocious Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei successful Isfahan, Iran, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (Payman Shahsanaei/ISNA via AP)

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The organizations, which are urging a halt to nan executions, besides claimed a deficiency of circumstantial grounds linking nan accused to nan alleged crimes, and based on that Tehran is seeking to intimidate nan nationalist successful bid to forestall early civilian unrest. 

Widespread protests first erupted successful precocious December 2025 successful Tehran amid an economical situation marked by a collapsing rate and soaring inflation. Tensions past quickly escalated into broader anti-government unrest that dispersed crossed aggregate cities.

Washington officially joined nan conflict pinch nan motorboat of Operation Epic Fury on Feb. 28, 2026, erstwhile it conducted monolithic associated airstrikes with Israel that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.