{"id":225945,"date":"2026-07-28T10:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/225945\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T10:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:58:21","slug":"iran-hangs-2-men-convicted-of-killing-4-police-officers-in-january-protests-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/225945\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran hangs 2 men convicted of killing 4 police officers in January protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">TEHRAN, Iran &#8212; Iran on Tuesday hanged two men convicted in a case of killing four police officers during January protests, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A report by Mizanonline.ir, affiliated to the country\u2019s judiciary, identified the two as Abolfazl Sepahi Badjani and Amir Hossein Safari Hosseinabadi, saying they also set a police station on fire and damaged public properties in the central city of Isfahan, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) south of the capital, Tehran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The two men are the latest executed from among the tens of thousands who were <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-protests-crackdown-arrests-9de7c65d17920dc43568d3f025fed2cd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested during a January crackdown<\/a> on nationwide protests. Rights groups say more could face death sentences. The protests that began late December and extended to January faced a heavy crackdown by security forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Earlier in July Iran hanged two other men in the same case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Iran put the death toll of the protests at more than 3,000. Right groups activists put the number at more than 7,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEHRAN, Iran &#8212; Iran on Tuesday hanged two men convicted in a case of killing four police officers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[12713,197,34,4277,1494,82],"class_list":["post-225945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-capital-punishment","tag-general-news","tag-iran","tag-law-enforcement","tag-protests-and-demonstrations","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116997252905443398","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}