The public hanging of two January 2026 protesters in Isfahan underscores an escalating execution campaign as human rights groups warn that hundreds of political prisoners face death. The executions were carried out publicly despite repeated international appeals to halt them and growing warnings that dozens of other political prisoners face the same fate. A Growing Number of Political Prisoners Face ExecutionThe Isfahan executions are only the latest in a rapidly expanding wave of capital punishment targeting protesters and political prisoners. Human rights organizations have repeatedly urged governments to place the regime’s expanding execution campaign at the center of any diplomatic engagement with Tehran, warning that silence will only encourage further killings. Human rights organizations say Baniamerian was one of dozens of political prisoners executed since the outbreak of the recent war.