Iran has become the epicenter of the news for a few weeks, the images of the bodies lying and piled on the ground They intermingle with those of the streets burning as a sign of protest against the ayatollahs.
The revolts that began on December 28, 2025 have already become the more crowded and with a greater number of deaths. According to data from the Iranian opposition NGO HRANA, based in the United States, so far there are 2.003 muertosincluding children, and more than 10,000 detainees.
Although the American chain CBS has reported, late this Tuesday, a death toll of at least 12,000 people, a figure that could reach 20,000. Information he claims to have received from two sources inside Iran, which cite activist groups who collect hospital medical records on the ground.
The death toll continues to climb. However, what will happen this Wednesday will be something historic: the first execution of a protester as a result of the current protests. It is about Erfan Soltania young man from 26 years who was arrested on January 8 during the protests and sentenced to hanging.
Soltani was arrested in Fardis, a city in the metropolitan area of Karaj, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights and the charge against him, according to the American newspaper The Sunis that of “wage war against God”.
It was his own attorney general of IranMohammad Movahedi Azad, who warned on Saturday that anyone who participates in the protests will be considered a “enemy of God”a crime punishable by death in Iran.
Erfan Soltani, a resident of Fardis, Karaj, who was arrested during recent protests in the city, is facing the imminent execution of a death sentence following a rapid and opaque judicial process.https://t.co/AavgRh5kFR
— Hengaw Organization for Human Rights (@Hengaw_English) January 12, 2026
What is relevant about this fact is that he was judged through a accelerated judicial procedurein just three days, and sin that they would be respected the most basic procedural guarantees: He did not have legal assistance, he did not have access to an impartial trial, nor the real possibility of appealing.
Soltani’s family has said they received confirmation of the execution when the case was closed, just four days after his arrest. Likewise, they have complained that the authorities only allowed them one short visit of just a few minutes.
Not even his sister, a registered lawyer, was able to access the file or legally represent him, a detail that reinforces the complaints of opacity and arbitrariness.
Currently, Soltani is in the Ghezel Hesar prisonwhich is in Karaj, considered a symbol of repression and extreme punishment within the Iranian prison system. In fact, it has been one of the main execution centers in the country, especially during the 2000s and 2010s.
There, many executions, mainly for drug crimes, were carried out without prior notification to the families and after judicial processes questioned due to lack of guarantees.
Alleged “troublemakers”
He Supreme National Security Council of Iran (SNSC), the body in charge of maintaining internal control, has already announced that would not show “indulgence” with the protesters, whom he describes as “disruptors of peace and security.”
Likewise, the head of the Iranian judiciaryGholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, the hamamade “troublemakers”just like the supreme leader, Ali Jamenei; and the Tehran prosecutorAli Salehi, has pedido death penalty for those who carry knives or firearms and damage public property.
Bodies lie in body bags on the ground as people stand amid the scene in front of the Kahrizak Forensic Medical Center in Tehran.
Following this premise, the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran announced this Monday that they would proceed in a manner imminent with the execution of several detainees for his participation in the recent protests against the regime.
They reported that after carrying out expedited court proceedingsthe first group of “riot ringleaders” sentenced to death would be executed this Wednesday in the morning.
He planned method will be hanging and, in accordance with Islamic law, some of the penalties could be applied in public, as confirmed by official sources.
The hanging of Erfan Soltani and the rest of the “riot ringleaders” seems to be the beginning of a series of accelerated executions aimed at quelling social protest.
“We have never seen a case so quickly”said Awyar Shekhi of the Hengaw Organization to the BBC. “The government is using every tactic at its disposal to repress people and sow fear.”
“State forces shoot directly at gatherings and protests regardless of whether the targets are children or adults. The repression is brutal: tear gas and military-grade weapons are used, and detainees are brutally beaten before being taken to undisclosed locations,” Shekhi revealed.
The repression of the demonstrations is being severe and the authorities have restricted internet access throughout the country, without it being possible to connect to pages or services outside Iran.
However, the global response It didn’t take long to arrive. Leaders of numerous countries, as well as European institutions, have come to the defense of the protesters. But the first measures were carried out yesterday.
This Monday, thea president of the European ParliamentRoberta Metsola, announced the veto on the entry into that institution of diplomatic personnel or other representatives of Iran.
For his part, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced that any nation that “does business” with Iran will be punished with a 25% tariff from Washington.
It was this Tuesday when Trump threatened to “very strong measures” if Iran executes protesters. “If they hang them, they are going to see some things… We will take very strong measures if they do that,” Trump assured CBS News in an interview.