{"id":42157,"date":"2026-04-05T19:27:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=42157"},"modified":"2026-04-05T19:27:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:27:27","slug":"iran-hangs-college-student-another-man-in-protest-related-executions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=42157","title":{"rendered":"Iran hangs college student, another man in protest-related executions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Iran on Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/04\/world-news\/irans-regime-executes-two-more-of-its-people-as-bloody-reign-of-terror-continues\/\">hanged a 19-year-old college student and another man<\/a> accused of taking part in anti-regime protests, with the prisoners not even allowed to see kin before being killed, human-rights groups said.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad-Amin Biglari, 19, and Shahin Vahedparast Kalour, 30, were executed by the Islamic state at a prison in Karaj \u2014 among the latest protesters charged with <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/20\/opinion\/irans-public-hanging-of-teen-dissidents-highlights-its-regimes-savagery-yet-again\/\">waging war against God<\/a>, a capital offense in Iran, according to the Norwegian-based Hengaw Organization for Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>The men were accused of burning a Tehran base that belonged to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/20\/world-news\/israel-says-it-killed-basij-paramilitary-forces-top-intel-official\/\">Iran\u2019s Basij volunteer force<\/a> and attempting to raid the facility\u2019s armory during a December protest.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Mohammad-Amin Biglari, 19, was executed early Sunday. <span class=\"credit\">Hengaw.net<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Shahin Vahedparast Kalour, 30, was also executed for allegedly taking part in an anti-regime protest in December.   <span class=\"credit\">Hengaw.net<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Biglari and Kalour were also charged with \u201ccorruption on Earth,\u201d arson of public facilities, and collusion to commit crimes against national security, according to Hengaw.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for Biglari, a college computer-science major, said they were denied the ability to defend their client or even access the case file, the human-rights group said.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old had allegedly \u201cconfessed\u201d to the crime, but the details of his supposed confession remain unclear, and Iran has been repeatedly accused of torturing prisoners to force an admission of guilt.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Both Biglari and Kalour were executed early Sunday without being granted a final visit with their families, Hengaw said. <\/p>\n<p>It was a crushing blow to Biglari\u2019s father, who had searched for his son\u2019s body among the countless corpses in Kahrizak after he went missing in the wake of Tehran\u2019s brutal crackdown Jan. 8 and 9.<\/p>\n<p>Biglari\u2019s father only learned of his son\u2019s arrest three weeks later, after released prisoners revealed the identities of those who were still being detained by the state.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Chaos unfurled in Tehran during a Jan 8. protest when security forces unleashed a violent crackdown.  <span class=\"credit\">via REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>More than 7,000 people were killed in the brutal crackdown, according to human-rights groups working to confirm the death toll. <span class=\"credit\">MEK\/The Media Express\/SIPA \/ Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Biglari and Kalour were the latest in a new wave of government killings across Iran targeting those who took part in the anti-regime protests in December and January.<\/p>\n<p>While state media has confirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/19\/world-news\/iran-executes-19-year-old-champion-wrestler-saleh-mohammadi-two-others\/\">14 executions in Iran<\/a> so far this year,  Hengaw reported evidence of 160 hangings since January.<\/p>\n<p>More than 7,000 protesters were killed during the violent Jan. 8 and 9 crackdown, according to the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, with thousands of others arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International and other human-rights groups have raised fears of more planned executions of protesters in the weeks to come.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/05\/world-news\/iran-hangs-college-student-another-man-in-protest-related-executions\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran on Sunday 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