Iran to hold first feminine protestor in sick bloodthirsty crackdown over demonstrations
Bita Hemmati has been sentenced to death alongside her husband and two men from their apartment block in Tehran for allegedly throwing concrete blocks at security forces during January’s protests
Bita Hemmati is believed to be the first female protestor to be sentenced to death(Image: X)
The first female protestor is set to be executed by Iran as part of its bloody crackdown on anti-regime demonstrations earlier this year. Bita Hemmati has been sentenced to death alongside her husband Mohammadreza Majidi-Asl.
She is believed to be the first woman to be sentenced to death over the protests. The couple were convicted of carrying out actions on behalf of the United States alongside two other men, Behrouz Zamaninejad and Kourosh Zamaninejad.
All four lived in the same building in Tehran and had been accused of throwing concrete blocks from onto security forces in the capital. It was not immediately clear when the verdict was issued.
Their convictions were raised by the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), and the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center in separate statements.
The Abdorrahman Boroumand Center said it also believed that Bita was the woman who appeared in a video broadcast on state television in January, being personally interrogated by judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei.
It said: “The recording and broadcasting of forced confessions from defendants in an opaque process… constitutes a blatant violation of the defendant’s rights.”
A source close to the prisoners’ families said: “Mohammadreza Majidi-Asl and Bita Hemmati are a couple living in Tehran, and Amir Hemmati is a relative of the two.
“Kourosh Zamaninejad and Behrouz Zamaninejad were living in the same residential building, and their arrests took place simultaneously.”
Notorious Iranian judge Iman Afshari claimed the group “injured forces at the scene” and the use of “explosive materials and an unspecified weapons” at protests on January 8 and 9.
It comes after more than 1,600 people were reportedly sent to the gallows in Iran over the past 12 months, including several in connection with the deadly protests, which first ignited on December 28, 2025, and quickly swept across the nation.
The Islamic Republic put an internet blackout in place at the time with reports that thousands of people could have been killed as the regime attempted to supress the uprising.
Human rights groups have accused the regime of using the death penalty as a tool to strike fear into the hearts of the Iranian people.
Estimates put the death toll from protests at more than 33,000 with thousands more left to languish in jail.
Seven people have been hanged in Iran over crimes related to the protests including wrestling champion Saleh Mohammadi, 19, Mehdi Ghasemi and Saeed Davvodi, 21.
Earlier this month, Iran also hanged 18-year-old musician Amirhossein Hatami in the Ghezel Hesar prison despite hopes he would be spared because of his age.
The New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran said: “Dozens of individuals arrested during the January 2026 protests have been sentenced to death following grossly unfair, fast-tracked trials conducted without due process, access to independent counsel and reliance on torture-tainted forced ‘confessions’ as evidence.”
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