Executions against Protestants continue in Iran. Although the White House spokesperson announced in January that the Iranian regime had stopped, at the express request of President Donald Trump, plans to execute some 800 detainees following the protests, the reality is that three people have been executed today.
Among them, Saleh Mohammadi, an 18-year-old athlete who allegedly participated in one of the demonstrations that took place in January against the Islamic Republic and after which around 7,000 people died, according to data from human rights organizations. The three executed have been declared “guilty of murder and of carrying out operational actions in favor of Israel and the United States” and of “hostility against God”, as reported by the Mizan agency of the Iranian Judiciary.
He had an alibi, but the court ignored it
Mohammadi was sentenced on February 3 to be executed in public for murdering a police officer, whom he allegedly stabbed during a demonstration on January 8. It was of no use to the young man to assure the court that he had an alibi that exonerated him of everything and that placed him in his uncle’s house at the time the murder took place.
As confirmed by the Iran Human Rights (IHR) organization to El País, the young man was arrested, tortured and forced to confess. Although the court established a period of 20 days to appeal the sentence, it was of no use and Mohammadi was hanged in Nabutov Square, in the presence of his family, and blindfolded, as is usual in these cases.
Promise of the Iranian struggle
Mohammadi is a wrestler and won the bronze medal at the Saytev Cup in Krasnoyarsk, held in Russia in 2024. Numerous organizations have called for a halt to the execution, including Ammnesty International Iran, which, in a social media post, denounced that the young man was denied “an adequate defense and was forced to make confessions.”
According to Amnesty International, Mohammadi’s conviction was based on confessions obtained through torture, something he himself told the court. “There is no information to indicate whether his allegations of torture were investigated,” they stated.
1,500 people executed in 2025
The other two convicted and hanged along with Mohammadi were Mehdi Ghasemi and Saeid Davudi. They have also been accused of murder and enmity against God. According to the authorities, they were detained in security and intelligence operations and confessed to the facts during the different phases of the judicial process, in addition to reconstructing the crime in detail.
Executions in Iran are common and many human rights organizations have called for their ban. In 2025 alone, the country executed 1,500 people, according to UN data, which represents a 50% increase in hanged people compared to the previous year.
