Iran Holocaust

Amirhossein Hatami

Amirhossein Hatami, 18, an industrial-design student at the University of Tehran, was hanged at dawn on 2 April 2026 after a closed-door trial. His body was withheld from his family for days.

Portrait of Amirhossein Hatami, industrial-design student, university of tehran, killed in Iran on 2 April 2026.
Amirhossein Hatami — photograph released by the family, via Iran International · Javidnaman.

“Eighteen years old, tried behind closed doors, hanged before sunrise.”

Age
18
Studying
Industrial design, University of Tehran
Executed
Dawn, 2 April 2026
Trial
Closed-door; charges announced only after execution
Aftermath
Body withheld from the family
Reported
Iran International, 2 April 2026

Who was Amirhossein Hatami?

Amirhossein Hatami was eighteen and studying industrial design at the University of Tehran when he was arrested over the January 2026 protests. He was convicted in a closed proceeding, without counsel of his choosing and without a public record of the evidence against him, and hanged at dawn on 2 April 2026.

Mizan, the judiciary’s own news agency, announced his death and labelled him a terrorist — the standard formula for protest executions, published after the fact so that no independent party can test it. Authorities continued to withhold his body from his family for days afterwards.

How the Islamic Republic executes protesters

Protest executions in Iran follow a fixed sequence: arrest during or shortly after a demonstration; weeks of incommunicado detention; a confession broadcast on state television; a Revolutionary Court hearing lasting hours rather than days, usually without counsel of the defendant’s choosing; a moharebeh or efsad-fel-arz conviction; a rejected appeal; and a dawn hanging announced afterwards by the judiciary’s own news agency.

None of that survives contact with the fair-trial guarantees of Article 14 of the ICCPR, which Iran ratified in 1975. The UN Special Rapporteur on Iran and the UN Fact-Finding Mission have both concluded that executions arising from protest cases amount to arbitrary deprivation of life, and that when carried out as part of a widespread and systematic attack on civilians they constitute crimes against humanity. Amirhossein Hatami’s case followed the sequence exactly.

Video and archive

No verified video of Amirhossein Hatami is in the public record that this project can confirm. The film below documents the events in which he was killed, and the Javidnaman archive holds the family photographs and case notes for the January 2026 dead.

Iranian revolutionary justice: how the Islamic Republic executes. More documentary footage is collected on the videos page.

Sources

Why this page exists

Names surface for a few days and then disappear under the next news cycle. This page keeps a dated, citation-ready record of what is known about Amirhossein Hatami, with the photograph his family chose to release and links to the monitors who verify such cases. Corrections and additional documentation are welcome through the organisations listed under sources and methodology.

Frequently asked questions

Who was Amirhossein Hatami?

Amirhossein Hatami, 18, an industrial-design student at the University of Tehran, was hanged at dawn on 2 April 2026 after a closed-door trial. His body was withheld from his family for days.

When was Amirhossein Hatami executed?

Amirhossein Hatami was executed on 2 April 2026.

What was Amirhossein Hatami charged with?

Protest executions in Iran are almost always brought under moharebeh ("waging war against God") or efsad-fel-arz ("corruption on earth"), capital charges decided by Revolutionary Courts in closed sessions that fall far short of the fair-trial standards of Article 14 of the ICCPR.

Are protest executions in Iran lawful?

No. The UN Special Rapporteur on Iran and the UN Fact-Finding Mission have found that death sentences imposed after coerced confessions and closed proceedings amount to arbitrary deprivation of life, and that the practice, applied systematically against protesters, can constitute a crime against humanity.