Iran executes 19-year-old December protest detainee Amirhossein Hatami

Hengaw – Thursday, April 2, 2026

Amirhossein Hatami, one of the detainees from the December 2025 protests who had been sentenced to death on charges of moharebeh in the case known as the “Kaveh Basij base arson,” was executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj.

Based on information received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the execution of Amirhossein Hatami, 19, was carried out at dawn on Thursday, April 2, 2026, after he had been transferred to solitary confinement in recent days along with four other defendants in the same case in preparation for the implementation of their sentences.

Mizan News Agency, the official media outlet of the judiciary, announced the news and stated that the death sentence had been upheld by the Supreme Court. The defendants in this case had been sentenced to death on charges of moharebeh by Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Salavati, only one month after their arrest.

The judiciary claims that Hatami participated in setting fire to a Basij base on Damavand Street in Tehran during the protests. However, the defense lawyers, citing video evidence, rejected the official narrative and stated that plainclothes forces trapped protesters inside a building, locked the doors, and themselves started the fire.

Amirhossein Hatami was one of seven defendants in this case. The other defendants in the case are Mohammadamin Biglari, Shahin Vahedparast Kalur, Abolfazl Salehi Siavashani, Ali Fahim, Shahab Zahdi, and Yaser Rajaeifar.

According to information obtained by Hengaw, four other prisoners in this case — Mohammadamin Biglari, Shahin Vahedparast Kalur, Abolfazl Salehi Siavashani, and Ali Fahim — who had previously been transferred to solitary confinement along with Amirhossein Hatami, are at imminent risk of execution.