ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iranian authorities on Sunday executed three more men arrested during January's nationwide anti-government protests, bringing the number of protesters put to death in less than a week to five.
The three men, Hassan Divband, Hamid Kazemi and Reza Zanganeh, were hanged in Karaj, Alborz province, after the Supreme Court upheld their death sentences, according to a report carried by the judiciary-affiliated Mizan News Agency.
The judiciary accused the three of participating in armed attacks on public and government buildings during the January 8-9 unrest in Karaj, including destroying an electricity substation and setting public facilities on fire. It also accused them of working for the United States and Israel.
The executions come as Iranian authorities continue to pursue death sentences against people detained during the nationwide protests that erupted on December 28, 2025, and peaked on January 8 and 9, when security forces launched a deadly crackdown that killed thousands.
Despite suppressing the demonstrations months ago, authorities have continued to persecute detainees and carry out executions in connection with the unrest.
At least 36 protesters have been executed related to the January protests, according to a recent report from the Oslo-based Iran Human Rights (IHR).
Hengaw Organization for Human Rights also reported last month that at least 106 protesters with connections to the January protests were sentenced to death.
Two other protesters, Amirhossein Maleki and Amirhossein Ebrahimi, were executed on Tuesday after the Supreme Court upheld their death sentences, bringing the total number of protesters executed in less than a week to five.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Arman Marefati, a Kurdish man arrested during the January protests in Tehran, a human rights group reported Monday.
Marefati, who worked at a fruit and vegetable market in Tehran before his arrest, was transferred from the Greater Tehran Penitentiary to Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj in June. He remains detained there, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
His co-defendants, Ashkan Maleki and Mehrdad Mohammadinia, both Kurdish men from Qorveh in Kurdistan province, were executed on June 1. Iran's judiciary confirmed their executions, accusing them of deliberately setting fire to a mosque and damaging public property.
