Iran on Sunday hanged a 19-year-old college student and another man accused of taking part in anti-regime protests, with the prisoners not even allowed to see kin before being killed, human-rights groups said.
Mohammad-Amin Biglari, 19, and Shahin Vahedparast Kalour, 30, were executed by the Islamic state at a prison in Karaj — among the latest protesters charged with waging war against God, a capital offense in Iran, according to the Norwegian-based Hengaw Organization for Human Rights.
The men were accused of burning a Tehran base that belonged to Iran’s Basij volunteer force and attempting to raid the facility’s armory during a December protest.
Biglari and Kalour were also charged with “corruption on Earth,” arson of public facilities, and collusion to commit crimes against national security, according to Hengaw.
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.
The 19-year-old had allegedly “confessed” 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.
Both Biglari and Kalour were executed early Sunday without being granted a final visit with their families, Hengaw said.
It was a crushing blow to Biglari’s father, who had searched for his son’s body among the countless corpses in Kahrizak after he went missing in the wake of Tehran’s brutal crackdown Jan. 8 and 9.
Biglari’s father only learned of his son’s arrest three weeks later, after released prisoners revealed the identities of those who were still being detained by the state.
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.
While state media has confirmed 14 executions in Iran so far this year, Hengaw reported evidence of 160 hangings since January.
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.
Amnesty International and other human-rights groups have raised fears of more planned executions of protesters in the weeks to come.
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