'Misled Once Again By Fake News': Iran Rejects Trump's Claim Over Execution Of 8 Women In Tehran

Last Updated:April 22, 2026, 08:52 IST

Responding to the US President's claims, the judiciary's official Mizan Online website said, "Trump was misled once again by fake news."

Amid the ongoing tense situation in the Middle East, the Iranian judiciary on Tuesday denied that eight women were arrested over protests that shook the Islamic Republic this year and are at risk of execution. The development came after US President Donald Trump urged Tehran to release them to help negotiations.

Meanwhile, according to AFP, the rights groups said at least one woman arrested over the January protests has been sentenced to death and one more is facing charges that carry the death penalty and could see her executed.

Responding to the US President’s claims, the judiciary’s official Mizan Online website said, “Trump was misled once again by fake news."

“The women who were claimed to be on the verge of execution, some of them have been released, while others face charges that, if convictions are upheld, would at most result in imprisonment," he added.

Earlier on social media, Trump said that the women’s release could work in Iran’s favour in negotiations. His remarks were in reference to an activist’s claim that eight women were facing death by hanging. That claim did not give names but included photographs of the women.

“I would greatly appreciate the release of these women," Trump posted on Truth Social.

Following this, the US-based Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad, however, posted the names of all eight women on her X account and stated that they all have been arrested in connection with the January protests.

“Say their names," Alinejad said, alleging that one of those held was as young as 16.

One of the women identified, Bita Hemmati, was sentenced to death along with three men, including her husband, in a case where they are accused of throwing concrete blocks from a residential building onto security forces in Tehran, several rights groups reported earlier this month, according to a report published in AFP.

As per the US-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Center rights group, Hemmati was the woman who appeared in a video broadcast on state television in January being personally interrogated by judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei.

Another woman in the pictures reposted by Trump is Mahboubeh Shabani, 32, who, according to the Norway-based Hengaw rights group, has been charged with the capital offence of “waging war against God" after being accused of using her motorcycle to transport wounded protesters in the northeastern city of Mashhad.

She is currently being held in the women’s ward of Vakilabad prison in Mashhad, according to Hengaw, which expressed “deep concern over the risk of a death sentence in this case".

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