Focus on Iran: Three Men are Executed Amid War, Marking First Executions of December 2025/January 2026 Protestors

Focus on Iran: Three Men are Executed Amid War, Marking First Executions of December 2025/January 2026 Protestors

Iran hanged three men — Saleh Mohammadi, Saeed Davodi, and Mehdi Ghasemi — in the city of Qom on March 19, 2026, the day before the nation’s new year. According to the judi­cia­ry-affil­i­at­ed Mizan News Agency, the three men, who were accused of par­tic­i­pat­ing in the killings of two police­men dur­ing protests, were hanged ​“in the pres­ence of a group of peo­ple.” This marked the first exe­cu­tion of pro­tes­tors fol­low­ing the recent wav…