This is the official @Amnesty International account for the organisation's work on Iran. https://xitter.gq/t.co/oVcAd6SZDC
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Most of these officials remain in positions of authority enabling them to unleash further deadly repression in Iran. This impunity emboldened the authorities to unlawfully kill thousands more protesters between 8 and 9 Jan 2026. 2/2
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We at @amnesty welcome the landmark ruling by a U.S. federal court in Florida allowing a lawsuit filed by three Iranian torture survivors against Parviz Sabeti, a former senior official in SAVAK, Iran’s intelligence agency during the Shah era, to move forward. 1/5
which there must be accountability, regardless of the political opinions of either the accused or the victim.
@amnesty documented the systemic use of torture under the Shah and found human rights deteriorated drastically after the 1979 Revolution. 4/5
Iranian authorities’ arbitrary execution of Amirhossein Ebrahimi Analojeh and Amirhossein Maleki on 3 November, convicted in relation to the January 2026 protests, is horrific. They were sentenced to death by a Revolutionary Court after a torture-tainted grossly unfair trial. 1/4
Iran’s authorities executed at least 34 people in connection to the Jan 2026 uprising after unfair trials. At least 20 others are at imminent risk of protest-related executions after the Supreme Court upheld their death sentences. Many more remain at risk. amnesty.org/en/documents/mde…
At least another 6 individuals are at imminent risk of execution from this same trial after the Supreme Court upheld their convictions and death sentences, namely: Abolfazl Ebrahimi, Ali Dashti, Javad Talebpour, Mehdi Eskandari, Sepehr Hounjani and Shervin Bagherian Jebeli. 3/4
At least 36 people have been executed in connection with the Jan uprising. Iran's authorities must halt all planned executions now, quash all death sentences & establish an official moratorium on executions w/a view to fully abolishing the death penalty4/4 amnesty.org/en/documents/mde…
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Iran’s authorities executed at least 34 people in connection to the Jan 2026 uprising after unfair trials. At least 20 others are at imminent risk of protest-related executions after the Supreme Court upheld their death sentences. Many more remain at risk. amnesty.org/en/documents/mde…
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Scores of people in Iran are at risk of politically motivated death sentences and executions as authorities intensify repression. States must take urgent diplomatic action to pressure the authorities to halt all executions & establish an official moratorium on all executions. 5/5
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In under 2 months, Iran’s judges sentenced to death or upheld death sentences of at least five other women on politically-motivated charges after unfair trials, namely: Mahboubeh Shabani, Marzieh Ebrahimi Shamsabadi, Mojdeh Hashemi Bazargani, Najmeh Amini & Verisheh Moradi. 4/5
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Iranian authorities must immediately halt plans to execute Taraneh Rahimi, 21, and quash her conviction and death sentence. In August 2026, a Revolutionary Court in Esfahan sentenced her to death after a grossly unfair torture-tainted trial linked to the January 2026 uprising.1/5
Iranian authorities must immediately halt plans to execute Taraneh Rahimi, 21, and quash her conviction and death sentence. In August 2026, a Revolutionary Court in Esfahan sentenced her to death after a grossly unfair torture-tainted trial linked to the January 2026 uprising.1/5
In under 2 months, Iran’s judges sentenced to death or upheld death sentences of at least five other women on politically-motivated charges after unfair trials, namely: Mahboubeh Shabani, Marzieh Ebrahimi Shamsabadi, Mojdeh Hashemi Bazargani, Najmeh Amini & Verisheh Moradi. 4/5
Iranian authorities must immediately halt any plans to execute Fatemeh Aini, 31, who is held in Lakan prison, Rasht. A Revolutionary Court sentenced her to death following a grossly unfair trial for drug-related offences. @amnesty just learned that 3 days ago Fatemeh Aini 1/3
was moved to solitary confinement for implementing her death sentence & is at imminent risk of execution as early as tomorrow, according to an informed source.
Iranian authorities' use of the death penalty for drug-related offences violates international law, which prohibits 2/3