According to a rights group, about 100 people have been reportedly sentenced to death or charged with capital offences in connection with the protests in Iran
The real number of protesters facing the death penalty was believed to be far higher because families were being pressured to stay quiet, it warned.
Two men were executed this month after what activists said were sham trials.
Mohsen Shekari and Majidreza Rahnavard, who were both 23, were found guilty by Revolutionary Courts of the vaguely-defined national security charge of “enmity against God”.
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Iran has been engulfed by protests against the country’s clerical establishment for just over 100 days.
These protests erupted following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who was detained by morality police in Tehran on 13 September for allegedly wearing her hijab, or headscarf, “improperly”.
Amini had died in police custody causing other women and men to
start protests.
Authorities, however, have portrayed the protests as foreign-backed “riots” and responded with lethal force.
According to Iran Human Rights (IHR), about 476 protesters have been killed, including 64 children and 34 women.
A report published by the group on Tuesday identified 100 individuals whose sentences or indictments have either been announced by officials or reported by their families or journalists.
All defendants had been “deprived of the right to access their own lawyer, due process and fair trials”, it said.
“In cases where they have managed to make contact, or details of their cases (have been) reported by cellmates and human rights defenders, all have been subjected to physical and mental torture to force false self-incriminating confessions,” the report states.
