Overview
- Iranian judicial sources named the executed men as Hassan Divband, Hamid Kazemi and Reza Zanganeh and said they were arrested during January protests in Karaj.
- The judiciary accused the men of taking part in attacks on government buildings, setting public property on fire and acting for Israel, the United States and other so-called 'hostile' groups.
- Their death sentences were confirmed by the Supreme Court and the authorities reported that the men's assets had been seized before the executions.
- Human-rights groups say the executions are being used to intimidate dissent and point to what they call unfair trials and politically motivated prosecutions.
- The executions form part of a wider trend that rights monitors describe as a sharp rise in capital punishment in Iran, with Amnesty reporting over 2,000 executions nationally in the past year.