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Iran's judiciary has sentenced 31-year-old Bita Hemmati to death for her alleged role in the January 2026 uprising, making her the first woman facing execution specifically for post-2022 protest activity. The case arrives amid a record 1,639 executions in Iran in 2025 — the highest annual total since 1989 — with at least 48 women hanged that year and hundreds more protesters facing capital charges. Human rights monitors and UN experts have documented collective indictments, torture-tainted confessions, and Revolutionary Court proceedings lasting minutes, while Tehran defends the prosecutions as responses to armed insurrection rather than political dissent.