Saturday, April 4, 2026 - Iran has executed a teenage musician for participating in the January protests.
Amirhossein Hatami, 18, was hanged in the notorious
Ghezel Hesar prison outside the capital yesterday, despite hopes he would be
spared because of his age.
The talented guitarist was arrested on January 8 and accused
of committing arson against the feared Basij paramilitary's base in Tehran
during anti-regime protests.
He was held in solitary confinement for weeks, his long,
curly black hair was shaved off, and he was paraded on national television
being brutally interrogated.
Amirhossein was convicted of 'Moharebeh' ('Enmity Against
God') and sentenced to death on February 7. On Thursday, the judiciary
announced he had been 'hanged at dawn'.
The Iranian judiciary's Mizan Online website said he acted
'against national security' on behalf of Israel and the United States
by breaking into 'a military centre and destroying it in order to seize the
weapons stored there' during the protests.
But Amnesty International said it was 'outraged by the
arbitrary execution of the teenage protester', adding the trial was 'grossly
unfair' and that he had been sentenced to death less than a month after his
arrest.
Now fears are growing for dozens more on death row, with
reports that four other men have been moved to pre-execution solitary
confinement in the same prison as the teenager.
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