04/04/2026, 10:1504/04/2026, 10:15
Two more men have been executed in Iran in a wave of executions. According to the justice portal Mizan, Abolhassan Montaser and Vahid Bani-Amerian are said to have planned and carried out attacks and explosions in Tehran on behalf of the opposition People’s Mujahideen. The judiciary also accuses them of using rocket launchers.
However, human rights groups criticize the fact that “opponents of the regime” are regularly confronted with this accusation. Amnesty International speaks of unfair trials and possible torture confessions in the Montaser and Bani-Amerian cases. They have repeatedly rejected all allegations of having taken up arms against the state.
Already at least 160 executions this year
The People’s Mujahideen are an Iranian opposition group in exile that has been fighting against the Islamic system in Iran for decades. Because the group is classified as a terrorist organization in Iran, many of its members have been executed in recent years.
According to the human rights organization Hengaw, at least 160 death sentences were carried out in Iran in the first three months of this year.
The Iranian judiciary announced on Tuesday that it would in future carry out the death penalty for more crimes than before “without mercy or leniency”. In addition to espionage for the USA, Israel or other “enemy states”, acts of terrorism, the destruction of state facilities and acts that cause “fear and terror” among the population will also be punished with the death penalty. (sda/dpa)
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