TEHRAN — Iranian authorities sentenced four more people, including a woman, to death over last January's protests. The four were convicted by a Tehran Revolutionary Court presided over by Judge Imam Afshari on charges of carrying out actions on behalf of the United States, according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency and the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center.

The convicted individuals were identified as Mohammadreza Majidi-Asl, Bita Hemmati, Behrouz Zamaninejad, and Kourosh Zamaninejad. Behrouz Zamaninejad and Kourosh Zamaninejad lived in the same Tehran building as Majidi-Asl and Hemmati. The Iranian judiciary accused the group of using explosives and weapons, harming stationed forces, and throwing objects including bottles, concrete blocks, and incendiary materials from the roofs of buildings, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

The Abdorrahman Boroumand Center said Hemmati was the woman who appeared in a January video broadcast on state television being personally interrogated by judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei. The center said that recording and broadcasting forced confessions from defendants in an opaque process constitutes a violation of defendants' rights.

The sentences bring to at least 26 the number of people arrested over the January protests who have received death sentences, according to Iran Human Rights. Several hundred more people arrested in connection with the protests face charges that could result in execution, the organization said. Iran executed three men last month who were accused of killing police officers during the protests.

The Center for Human Rights in Iran said dozens of individuals arrested during the January 2026 protests have been sentenced to death after trials conducted without due process, without access to independent counsel, and based on forced confessions alleged to have been obtained under torture. The National Council of Resistance of Iran called on the United Nations to take immediate action to save the lives of prisoners sentenced to death, especially political prisoners and those detained during the uprising.

Iran carried out 656 executions in the first three months of this year, according to Iran Human Rights Monitor. The country was largely offline in March, when only eight executions were recorded, the organization said. At least 1,639 people were executed in Iran in 2025, including 48 women, according to a joint annual report by Norway-based Iran Human Rights and Paris-based Together Against the Death Penalty.