Two other defendants in the case, Erfan Esfandiari, 19, and Gol-Mohammad Mohammadi, a 24-year-old Afghan national, were executed on July 19. Four officers died violently at Alikhani Square that January night, in the middle of the deadliest unrest Iran has seen in years. After images of scaffolding being erected at the square spread on Monday evening, residents converged on Alikhani Square through the night in an attempt to stop the executions. The Council’s rationale did not cite the Alikhani Square case specifically, but rather politically-motivated trials of dissidents and religious minorities, including Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi. Eight to ten defendants in the case remain on death row, several of them 18 or 19 years old.