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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iranian authorities on Saturday executed a man arrested in connection with January’s nationwide anti-government protests after the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence, the judiciary said.
Siavash Jamshidi was executed after being convicted of moharebeh, or “enmity against God,” for drawing and firing a weapon, as well as conspiracy against national security, according to the judiciary-affiliated Mizan news agency.
Jamshidi was among thousands of people who took part in the January protests. Iranian authorities responded to the demonstrations with lethal force, killing thousands of protesters, according to human rights groups.
The nationwide protests began in late December 2025, initially over worsening economic conditions and the sharp depreciation of Iran’s currency, before spreading across the country and developing into calls for political change by mid-January.
Iranian security forces launched a sweeping crackdown on the demonstrations as US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency HRANA documented 7,007 confirmed deaths during the first 50 days of the unrest, including 6,488 protesters and 236 children, while another 11,744 cases remained under review.
Mizan said Jamshidi was active during the January 2026 unrest in Shahrekord, the capital of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province in western Iran, alleging that he fired at police officers with a military-style weapon. He was arrested two days later after authorities identified his vehicle and found him with a handgun.
The judiciary-affiliated outlet also accused Jamshidi of using social media to organize activities related to the unrest and offering payments to people to carry out a mission.
Iran on Wednesday executed two other men convicted over their involvement in January’s nationwide anti-government protests in the northeastern city of Mashhad in Razavi Khorasan province.
Oslo-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) organization reported in mid-September that at least 29 men arrested over the January protests had been executed since March 19.
At a UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva on Wednesday, Liechtenstein delivered a statement on behalf of more than 40 countries criticizing Iran’s use of the death penalty. The statement said at least 31 protesters had been executed following the January crackdown and called on Tehran to halt executions.
The United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran said on September 21 that authorities had executed at least 29 men between March and the end of August in connection with the protests, five of them publicly.
