IRAN - 3 ‘Protesters’ sentenced to death

October 26, 2026 - IRAN. 3 ‘Protesters’ sentenced to death

Amirreza Rezaei, Vahid Ghahremani, Mehdi …

Branch 23 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court has sentenced Amirreza Rezaei, Vahid Ghahremani, and a cleric named Mehdi (surname unknown) to death. All three were arrested during the January 2026 protests.

Based on information received by HRANA, Amirreza Rezaei, Vahid Ghahremani, and a cleric named Mehdi (surname unknown) were sentenced to death by Branch 23 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court. Among the charges brought against the three individuals in this case is allegedly carrying out operations on behalf of Israel. The death sentences were communicated to them in prison on October 26, 2026.

Mehdi, another defendant in the case, is a cleric and a former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). He has also been sentenced to death by the Special Clerical Court in a separate case on charges of “apostasy.” Consequently, two death sentences have been issued against him in two separate cases.

The three individuals were arrested separately during the nationwide protests of January 2026.

On October 28, 2026, they were transferred from the Greater Tehran Prison to Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj.