8,949 additional deaths are still under investigation
It is estimated that thousands of protesters have been killed on 8 and 9 January
167 executions since the beginning of the year
Omid Teymourirad, Amir Teymourirad, Armin Teymourirad
Nasir Nasiri, Arsalan Ghahramani, and Omid Saeedi
Hamid Arzanlou, Vahid Arzanlou, Mohammadreza Entezami, Milad Gholami, Ali Sadeghi
A Japanese court rejected on January 16, 2026 three death-row inmates' demands against the state to halt their executions by hanging as an inhumane practice in violation of an international convention prohibiting cruel punishment.
Morteza Shaneh, Parsa Saffar, Hamid Mahdavi, Abbasali Ramezani
Amir Mohammad Arbabpouri, Melina Asadi, Sam Afshari, Abolfazl Heydari-Moslou, Mohammad Ghasem-Rousta, Mehrab Golestani, Amir Salar Bahmaninejad
Behnam Darvish, Mehrdad Yaghoubi Mehr, Ali Behroozdoust, Hossein Naseri, Masoud Bolourchi, Ahmad Abbasi
