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Mobile-phone traders in central Tehran closed shops and gathered in protest as the rial fell to new lows. Demonstrations were reported around the Alaeddin complex, Iran Mobile Center and Jomhouri Street, with anti-government slogans also heard.
Shop closures continued for a second day across several major Tehran markets. Closures or gatherings were reported at Chaharsouq, the gold market, Lalehzar, Jafari bazaar and parts of the Shoush wholesale district.
On the night of 29 December, protests were reported in Qeshm, Zanjan and Hamadan. Protesters chanted 'Death to the dictator' on Qeshm and 'Seyyed Ali will be toppled this year' in Zanjan.
A protester sat in the middle of Jomhuri Eslami Street in Tehran and refused to move for motorcycle security forces. He was later beaten and forced away. The image went viral and he became known as 'Tehran's Tank Man'.
On the third day of protests, students at several Tehran universities joined demonstrations as unrest spread beyond the capital. Riot police were reported using tear gas in some locations.
Security forces arrested five students while they were nonviolently protesting at the University of Tehran in support of the nationwide protest movement.
Protests were recorded in at least nine provinces, with students joining demonstrations at several universities. Merchant strikes were also reported in Tehran, Shiraz and Ahvaz.
On the third day of protests, BBC Persian reported that security forces fired on protesters in Hamadan and used tear gas in Tehran and Malard, as shop closures spread to Shoush, Molavi and Isfahan's Naqsh-e Jahan Square.
Rights groups and student groups reported that 11 protesters were arrested in the Shoush Square area of Tehran.
HRANA reported that Zahra Soleimani said her husband Mehdi Beik, political editor of Etemad newspaper, was arrested after going to Tehran's bazaar to cover the protests.
HRANA reported tear gas being fired and clashes between security forces and protesters in Kermanshah, and tear gas on Khayyam Street in Tehran.
Students at Khajeh Nasir University joined the protests on Tuesday 30 December, removing compulsory hijab and chanting 'death to the dictator', according to a Hengaw video report.
Protesters in Fooladshahr, Isfahan, took to the streets on the evening of Tuesday 30 December chanting 'death to the dictator', according to a Hengaw video report.
CTP-ISW reported that security forces fired live ammunition at crowds of protesters in Fasa and Kuhdasht as violence escalated during the opening days of the protests.
The government ordered closures in 21 of Iran's 31 provinces, officially because of cold weather and energy shortages. Analysts quoted by The New York Times said the real aim was to stifle the protests.
Protester Amirhesam Khodayarifard was killed by a shot to the head during protests in Kuhdasht. State media called him a Basij member; his father later said he was not, and the family reported pressure to accept the official account.
After Mohammad Reza Farzin resigned, the government appointed former economy minister Abdolnasser Hemmati as governor of the Central Bank of Iran.
KHRN's list of detainees records at least 23 people arrested in Dehloran, Ilam province, on 31 December; their fate was unknown at the time.
Hengaw reported that Dariush Ansari Bakhtiariwand, 37, a Lor man from Fuladshahr, was hit by Kalashnikov fire on the evening of 31 December and died before reaching a medical facility. (TIM records date his death to 30 December.)
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said at least 28 protesters and bystanders, including children, were killed in 13 cities across eight provinces between 31 December and 3 January, all shot by security forces, some with metal pellets. Lorestan (at least 8) and Ilam (at least 5) saw the deadliest repression; officials forced some families onto state media to blame accidents or protesters.
Government forces raided the Beheshti University dormitory on Wednesday 31 December and violently arrested students, according to a Hengaw video report.
CTP-ISW reported that protest violence increased from January 1 and that security forces killed protesters in locations including Kuhdasht, Fuladshahr, Marvdasht, Azna and Lordegan.
Human-rights reporting documented protesters being killed during demonstrations in Lordegan, one of several smaller cities where lethal force was used in the early phase of the unrest.
Al Jazeera reported that at least three people were killed during protests in Azna, Lorestan province, as unrest over the cost of living spread.
HRANA reported that security forces used gunfire and tear gas to disperse protesters in Nahavand, and pellet guns in Kuhdasht, on the fifth day of protests.
HRANA reported that Khodadad Shirvani, a resident of Marvdasht, was shot by security forces after taking part in protests and died.
HRANA confirmed the identity of Ahad Ebrahimpour, killed in Delfan (Nurabad, Lorestan) by violence from security forces.
Hengaw reported that Ali Qavidel, Peyman Mirzaei, Abbas Beidi and Arien Heidari were arrested on the evening of 1 January and Issa Shokouri on 2 January in Esfarayen County and taken to undisclosed locations.
Hengaw published footage of government forces firing directly at protesters in Abdanan, Ilam province, on the evening of Thursday 1 January.
Funerals were held under heavy security for protesters killed in Kuhdasht, Fuladshahr and Marvdasht. Mourners chanted against the government; in Kuhdasht, Basij and IRGC forces were chased away from the funeral.
Saber Dehghan, a neurosurgeon in Sirjan, was arrested at a hospital on 2 January while treating injured protesters, after an argument with security agents. HRANA reported the arrest weeks later, on 7 February, after communications returned.
US President Donald Trump warned that if Iran shot and killed peaceful protesters, the United States would 'come to their rescue'.
HRANA reported that mourners chanted slogans at the burials of two people killed in the protests; a video from Qom showed agents using tear gas to disperse them, and a man holding a pellet-gun cartridge.
HRANA confirmed the identity of Amirhossein Bayati, killed in Hamedan by violence from security forces.
The political and security deputy governor of Qom said a 17-year-old from Qom was killed during the previous night's protests, claiming he was shot by protesters, HRANA reported.
KHRN said Ali Azizi was killed by IRGC Basij gunfire during protests in Harsin. State-affiliated media presented him as a Basij member killed by protesters; eyewitnesses said he was a protester. Under IRGC pressure his father published a video, and the funeral on 4 January was state-run under tight security.
Seven Kurdish men from Sarpol-e Zahab were arrested on 2 January in connection with republishing a call for a peaceful protest, Hengaw reported.
Government forces raided homes in Asadabad, Hamedan province, and violently arrested five protesters, Hengaw reported.
Erfan Bozorgi, a Lor arm-wrestling champion from Marvdasht, died in hospital on 2 January after being shot directly by government forces during protests, bringing the Marvdasht toll to three, Hengaw reported.
Taha Safari, 15, was killed during protests in Azna. Authorities showed his family a body with gunshot wounds to the head and face, identifiable only by his jacket, and pressed them to register the death as a traffic accident, Hengaw reported on 5 January.
Government forces attacked protesters in Yasuj on Friday 2 January and fired directly at them, according to a Hengaw video report.
Hundreds of protesters marched from Shohada Square toward a Basij base in Malekshahi. Amnesty International found that IRGC personnel opened fire from inside the base, killing several people at the scene and injuring many others.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International reported that three protesters were fatally shot in the Jafarabad area of Kermanshah by plainclothes agents.
A protester in Dehdasht told Amnesty International that security forces shot him during demonstrations. Fearing arrest, he avoided hospital treatment despite an injury that put his leg at risk.
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said Iran would not yield to the enemy and that 'rioters must be put in their place'.
Cloudflare reported a 35% fall in internet traffic in Iran, and users reported frequent outages and slow connections.
The US State Department issued a statement condemning the suppression of funerals for protesters killed in Iran.
Videos verified by The New York Times showed police beating a man on the ground in Shiraz. As protesters threw objects, officers advanced on motorcycles, and a protester poured petrol on one officer and set him alight.
The Association of Families of Flight PS752 Victims declared solidarity with protesters and called for an end to violent suppression and accountability for those killed, injured and detained.
Hengaw said at least 11 more people, including three minors, were detained across Ilam province, bringing arrests there to 43 in three days.
Amir Mohammad Kouhkan, 26, a futsal coach and referee, was killed by multiple bullets when forces opened direct fire on protesters in Neyriz; IRGC forces took his body and the family's attempts to recover it failed, Hengaw reported.
FARAJA special forces and the IRGC raided Imam Khomeini Hospital in Ilam, where injured protesters were being treated. Amnesty International documented shotgun pellets and tear gas in the hospital grounds and beatings of patients, relatives and medical staff.
A joint burial for Reza Azimzadeh, Mehdi Emamipour and Latif Karimi, killed by IRGC fire on 3 January, drew a large crowd chanting anti-government slogans. Karimi's family rejected the IRGC claim that he was a member killed by protesters. Forces carried out overnight raids on suspected protesters' homes, KHRN reported.
Bazaar merchants and shopkeepers in Javanrud held a widespread strike on Sunday 4 January; the narrator of the video says it was in support of Lorestan, Ilam and Kermanshah, Hengaw reported.
Hengaw documented arrests of multiple residents, including a child and a woman, across Kermanshah, Songhor and Kolyai and other nearby cities. Many were transferred to undisclosed locations.
Judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei told prosecutors to act 'with resolve' against 'rioters and those who support them' and to show no leniency, calling for 'maximum' punishment.
Security forces confronted families of detained protesters who had gathered outside the governor's office in Yasuj.
Wildlife photographer Sadegh Parvizadeh said in an Instagram video that he had been struck in the face and eye by pellets during the protests, showing the pellets fired at him.
Fares (Mohsen) Agha-Mohammadi, shot in the head, and boxer Mohammadreza Karami, both wounded by IRGC fire in Malekshahi on 3 January, died in the ICU of Khomeini Hospital in Ilam on 5 January. Their funerals the same day saw anti-government slogans, KHRN reported.
Reza Moradi Abdolvand, 18, an auto-body worker shot twice during the Azna protests on 1 January, died on 5 January after five days in a coma, bringing the Azna toll to six, Hengaw reported.
At least 11 people, including five women and two minors, were arrested in Sonqor on 5–6 January, among them former Asian wrestling champion Javad Ostovari and 16-year-old Asal Begvand, who was arrested while injured, Hengaw reported.
Hengaw, citing Haalvsh, reported that Baloch teenagers Omid Nikzad, 16, and Mohammadkarim Seydi, 17, who had travelled to Isfahan for family medical treatment, were arrested on 5 January and taken to an undisclosed location.
A large crowd took to the streets of Abdanan in Ilam Province and chanted anti-government slogans. Videos received by Iran International showed the demonstration on the tenth day of protests.
Two days after the Ilam hospital raid, security forces stormed Sina Hospital in Tehran to arrest injured protesters, according to doctors' groups quoted by the BMJ.
Merchants held a sit-in at Tehran's Grand Bazaar, with many shops in the gold, fabric, footwear and appliance sections closed. Security forces dispersed it with tear gas.
Several Kurdish political groups, including KDPI, Komala and PAK, issued a joint statement backing the protests and calling on Kurds in Iran to strike and demonstrate.
HRANA reported that in the first ten days protests took place at 285 locations in 88 cities across 27 provinces, with at least 36 dead and more than 2,000 arrested.
HRANA confirmed the identities of Mohammadreza Karami, Lieutenant Ehsan Aghajani and Ali Golfroosh as people killed during the protests.
Dr Nabi Omidi, an associate professor of economics at Ilam University, and his brother Dr Ali Omidi, a political activist, were violently arrested in Ilam; two days later their whereabouts were unknown, Hengaw reported.
Molavi Abdolhamid Esmailzehi, Sunni Friday prayer leader of Zahedan, wrote on X on 6 January that any use of lethal force against protesters is a crime under international law and forbidden in Islamic law, and offered condolences to victims' families, Haalvsh reported.
On the evening of 6 January, after futsal coach and referee Amir Mohammad Kouhkan was killed, a large crowd gathered in Neyriz to commemorate him, lighting candles and clapping, and security forces attacked the gathering; videos of the memorial and the attack were broadcast by BBC, according to a documentary account on narrata (credit: narrata, author 'Avin').
A video received by Hengaw from Ilam shows government forces on the evening of Tuesday 6 January attacking a gathering, militarising the city and also attacking people in passing cars.
CTP-ISW recorded 89 protests across 21 provinces during its reporting period. Tehran was a major center of activity, while security forces were reported firing at protesters in several provinces.
Ahead of the general strike called for 8 January, authorities tried to disperse protests in western Iran, reportedly with live ammunition. Residents told The Guardian 'they are killing us'.
HRANA recorded street gatherings, protests and strikes in 37 cities in 24 provinces on 7 January, bringing the total to 348 sites in 111 cities. Ten more universities joined, and 40 forced confessions had been broadcast.
Protesters in Qaemiyeh pulled down a statue of IRGC commander Qasem Soleimani.
TIM victim records list 8 people killed in Lordegan on 7 January (9 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 14 deaths in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province on that day.
KHRN said Morteza Jahanbakhsh, Rouhollah Setareh-Moshtari, Mehdi Vali-Doust and Mehdi Ghorban-Doust were shot dead by security forces during protests in Chenaran. State media confirmed five deaths in the unrest without naming them. TIM records date these deaths to 7 January.
Forces fired Kalashnikovs at protesters in Khoshk-e Bijar on the night of 7 January, killing Mobin Yaghoubzadeh, 17, and Milad Gholamzadeh, 31, who was shot in the throat by forces from a Basij base; Sobhan Hadipour was critically wounded in the head, Hengaw reported.
Hengaw reported that the 7 January protest in Malard drew a large turnout and was met with live ammunition fired directly at demonstrators; Reza Rahmati was shot in the chest and killed.
Akram Pirgazi, 40, was shot in the head and face by government forces during protests in Neyshabur on 7 January; Hengaw called her the first woman reported killed in the protests.
Soran Feyzizadeh, 40, originally from Saqqez, was detained during protests in Bijar on 7 January and taken to a detention facility in the city, where he was severely tortured and killed, Hengaw reported. (TIM records list his death on 9 January.)
Footage received by Hengaw shows an attack on students at Kermanshah Azad University and the arrest of several protesting students on Wednesday 7 January.
As protests expanded, internet access was cut across Iran. Iran Human Rights reported that by 22:00 local time the country was under an internet blackout.
Hengaw reported widespread shop and market closures in 39 cities in response to a general strike call. Participation was reported across cities in Kermanshah, Kurdistan, West Azerbaijan and Ilam provinces.
CTP-ISW recorded at least 156 protests across 27 provinces on January 8, almost twice the previous day’s level. Dozens involved more than 100 participants.
Hengaw reported that government forces opened direct fire on demonstrators in Kermanshah’s Dareh Deraz neighborhood, killing at least five people. The area is also known as Mahdieh Township.
CTP-ISW reported that the regime used IRGC Ground Forces to suppress protests in Kermanshah, an unusual escalation in the response to domestic unrest. Reports of live fire accompanied the deployment.
Hengaw reported that nine residents were arrested in Qasr-e Shirin on the evening of January 8 and transferred to undisclosed locations. The organization said the arrests were carried out violently and without warrants.
Human Rights Watch said evidence it reviewed showed security forces carried out mass killings across Iran after protests escalated on January 8. Severe communications restrictions made the full scale of the violence difficult to establish.
Manoto footage shows strike action beginning in Neyshabur on January 8.
Manoto published footage showing strike action beginning in Eslamabad-e Gharb.
Footage from the Tabarsi area of Mashhad documented protest activity on January 8.
Manoto published footage showing strike action beginning in Qazvin.
Manoto footage from Moshir al-Dowleh in Isfahan showed strike action on January 8.
Manoto published footage labelled as direct fire at protesters in Kermanshah’s Maskan neighbourhood.
Manoto footage showed government forces attacking people at Tehran Bazaar on January 8.
Manoto published footage of protests beginning at Shohada Square in Kazerun.
Manoto published footage of bazaar traders striking in Zanjan.
Manoto published footage showing tear gas being fired at people in Neyshabur.
Manoto footage documented a nighttime protest in Gohardasht, Karaj.
Manoto published footage from protests in Shahin Shahr on January 8.
Multiple Manoto videos showed a large crowd and the closure of Vakilabad Boulevard in Mashhad.
Manoto published footage showing government forces attacking people during nighttime protests in Kerman.
Manoto published footage of nighttime protests in Qom.
Manoto published several videos of nighttime demonstrations in Tehran’s Saadat Abad neighbourhood.
Manoto footage showed a large gathering in Tehran’s Seyed Khandan area.
Manoto published footage of nighttime protests in Ahvaz.
Manoto published footage showing a young man being arrested in Kermanshah.
Manoto published footage of nighttime protests in Arak.
Manoto published footage of nighttime protests in Parand.
Manoto published footage explicitly labelled Hajiabad in Fars Province.
Manoto published footage of nighttime protests in Gonbad-e Kavus.
Manoto published footage showing protesters carrying an injured person in Azimieh, Karaj.
Manoto published footage described as showing a young woman being shot in Azimieh, Karaj.
Manoto published footage which, according to the outlet, captured the moment 17-year-old Arshia Asgari was shot.
Manoto published footage of nighttime protests in Tehran’s Navab area.
A Manoto contributor in Vavan, Eslamshahr reported that people were being fired upon from the police post.
From late on 8 January security forces surrounded protesters in and around Rasht's historic bazaar. Witnesses said people trying to flee the fire were shot and fire engines were blocked. According to HRANA at least 392 people were killed in Rasht. Officials blame protesters for the fire. Reported on 25 January by The Washington Post, after the internet returned.
According to a doctor quoted by Time, six hospitals in Tehran recorded 217 protester deaths, most from live ammunition, on the first night of the blackout.
Rights groups verified a video showing distressed relatives looking through a pile of bodies of protesters at Ghadir Hospital in Tehran. Reported by The Guardian on 10 January.
Clothes-shop owner Erfan Soltani was arrested at home over the Fardis protests. He was denied a lawyer, and days later his family was told he would be executed on 14 January. The execution was later postponed.
A police officer in Malard County was killed by stabbing while trying to control unrest, according to reports cited by Dawn.
Rubina Aminian, a 23-year-old textile design student from Marivan, was shot from behind at close range in the head after joining protests in Tehran on the evening of 8 January, according to sources close to her family.
A source close to his family said a sniper with a Dragunov rifle shot 46-year-old Shahabodin Sameni in the left eye in Tehran's Haft-Hoz Square on the evening of 8 January.
Sina Ashgboosi, days after his 16th birthday, was killed when state agents fired two live rounds into his abdomen and heart at Tehranpars Third Square. The family was made to sign an undertaking to hold a quiet burial.
Iran Human Rights reported that in Isfahan, Najafabad, Shahin Shahr, Khomeyni Shahr, Shahreza, Falavarjan, Zarrin Shahr, Fuladshahr, Baharestan and Lenjan forces fired military weapons without distinguishing protesters from passers-by. Witnesses described Yazdanshahr as a 'war zone' and bodies piling up at Bagh Rezvan cemetery.
Iran Human Rights reported that in Ahvaz, Dezful, Izeh, Andimeshk and Bagh Malek forces fired military weapons at crowds, in places from rooftops. Witnesses named Naderi Intersection and Bahonar in Ahvaz; in Dezful, wounded people were pursued after clashes and some were reportedly killed during transfer to hospital.
Iran Human Rights reported direct fire with G3 rifles and machine guns in Sari, firing into crowds in Behshahr and Ghaemshahr, overwhelmed hospitals in Babol, and gunfire in Gorgan, Gonbad-e Kavus and Azadshahr, including at people trying to help the wounded.
Witnesses told Iran Human Rights that security and plainclothes forces fired military weapons and shotguns on Daneshjoo, Haft Tir, Sayyad Shirazi and Vakilabad streets and near Mellat Park. Homes where residents sheltered protesters were later identified and raided.
Medical sources told Iran Human Rights that security forces raided Milad, Saadi, Sepahan, Sina and Gharazi hospitals in Isfahan, stayed inside and took more than 500 medical records of the injured. Homes of doctors treating the wounded were also raided.
Hossein Mahmoudi, 37, was killed in Isfahan on 8 January. His family only received his body on 17 January, after agents took 400 million tomans, '80 million tomans per bullet', and warned them not to speak out.
Civil activist Habib Khobipour, 47, was shot dead during a peaceful gathering in Isfahan. His death certificate gave the cause as 'impact of hard or sharp objects', and the family was told to say he was a Basij member to get his body; they refused.
Law student Alireza Ghaleghafi, 22, was shot dead in Azadshahr. After a week of pressure his body was released at 5 am, after his father was made to sign papers saying he was a Basij member. IRGC intelligence vehicles watched the burial.
Reza Eskandarpour, 37, was shot dead in Sadeghiyeh, Tehran. Security agents later assaulted his family at the burial, took their phones and deleted photos and videos, and threatened them with arrest.
A Tehran witness told Iran Human Rights that two families each paid 1.5 billion tomans for bodies held at Kahrizak for six days, and that a wealthier family was asked for 3 billion tomans and a statement that their child was Basij.
HRANA reported heavy gunfire in Behbahan, repeated gunshots in Khorramabad and aerial fire in Bijar, and tear gas in Shahin Villa (Karaj), Ghaemshahr, Khorramabad and Maragheh.
TIM victim records list 8 people killed in Andisheh on 8 January (8 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 731 deaths in Tehran province on that day.
TIM victim records list 35 people killed in Arak on 8 January (41 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 52 deaths in Markazi province on that day.
TIM victim records list 8 people killed in Astaneh Ashrafiyeh on 8 January (8 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 118 deaths in Gilan province on that day.
TIM victim records list 12 people killed in Babol on 8 January (13 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 65 deaths in Mazandaran province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8646/
TIM victim records list 19 people killed in Bandar Abbas on 8 January (21 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 28 deaths in Hormozgan province on that day.
TIM victim records list 12 people killed in Borujerd on 8 January (12 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 25 deaths in Lorestan province on that day.
TIM victim records list 18 people killed in Chalus on 8 January (19 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 65 deaths in Mazandaran province on that day.
TIM victim records list 22 people killed in Esfarayen on 8 January (25 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 32 deaths in North Khorasan province on that day.
TIM victim records list 27 people killed in Eslamshahr on 8 January (29 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 731 deaths in Tehran province on that day.
TIM victim records list 59 people killed in Fardis on 8 January (63 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 210 deaths in Alborz province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8591/
TIM victim records list 16 people killed in Fooladshahr on 8 January (16 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 197 deaths in Isfahan province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8609/
TIM victim records list 31 people killed in Gorgan on 8 January (38 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 33 deaths in Golestan province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8646/
TIM victim records list 11 people killed in Hamadan on 8 January (11 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 12 deaths in Hamadan province on that day.
TIM victim records list 9 people killed in Hashtgerd on 8 January (9 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 210 deaths in Alborz province on that day.
TIM victim records list 83 people killed in Isfahan on 8 January (91 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 197 deaths in Isfahan province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8609/
TIM victim records list 9 people killed in Islamabad-e Gharb on 8 January (9 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 80 deaths in Kermanshah province on that day.
TIM victim records list 139 people killed in Karaj on 8 January (153 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 210 deaths in Alborz province on that day.
TIM victim records list 18 people killed in Kerman on 8 January (21 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 27 deaths in Kerman province on that day.
TIM victim records list 68 people killed in Kermanshah on 8 January (81 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 80 deaths in Kermanshah province on that day.
TIM victim records list 15 people killed in Khorramabad on 8 January (16 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 25 deaths in Lorestan province on that day.
TIM victim records list 22 people killed in Lahijan on 8 January (24 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 118 deaths in Gilan province on that day.
TIM victim records list 8 people killed in Marvdasht on 8 January (8 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 60 deaths in Fars province on that day.
TIM victim records list 179 people killed in Mashhad on 8 January (199 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 203 deaths in Razavi Khorasan province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8543/
TIM victim records list 25 people killed in Najafabad on 8 January (29 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 197 deaths in Isfahan province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8609/
TIM victim records list 13 people killed in Pakdasht on 8 January (14 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 731 deaths in Tehran province on that day.
TIM victim records list 18 people killed in Parand on 8 January (18 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 731 deaths in Tehran province on that day.
TIM victim records list 21 people killed in Qarchak on 8 January (22 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 731 deaths in Tehran province on that day.
TIM victim records list 33 people killed in Qazvin on 8 January (34 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 42 deaths in Qazvin province on that day.
TIM victim records list 70 people killed in Rasht on 8 January (75 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 118 deaths in Gilan province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8552/
TIM victim records list 11 people killed in Sabzevar on 8 January (11 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 203 deaths in Razavi Khorasan province on that day.
TIM victim records list 11 people killed in Sari on 8 January (13 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 65 deaths in Mazandaran province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8646/
TIM victim records list 19 people killed in Saveh on 8 January (20 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 52 deaths in Markazi province on that day.
TIM victim records list 9 people killed in Shahreza on 8 January (10 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 197 deaths in Isfahan province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8609/
TIM victim records list 26 people killed in Shahriar on 8 January (29 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 731 deaths in Tehran province on that day.
TIM victim records list 25 people killed in Shiraz on 8 January (28 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 60 deaths in Fars province on that day.
TIM victim records list 426 people killed in Tehran on 8 January (476 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 731 deaths in Tehran province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8545/
TIM victim records list 32 people killed in Tehranpars on 8 January (34 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 731 deaths in Tehran province on that day.
TIM victim records list 18 people killed in Zanjan on 8 January (22 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 15 deaths in Zanjan province on that day.
A narrata documentary report on Hamidreza Haghparast, 36, says he was shot at close range on 8 January, taken to Al-Ghadir Hospital and left in a storeroom because of the number of casualties, where he died. According to witnesses, two wounded people were shot dead in front of medical staff. His body was released four days later after a written undertaking. Credit: narrata, citing Dadban and Iran International.
A narrata documentary report says Danial Sabzikar, 27, was shot in the abdomen during the 8 January protest in Qazvin's Alvand area and taken to Beheshti Hospital, where he was alive until about 10 pm; that night security agents raided the hospital and shot him in the heart. Credit: narrata, citing Iran International and Dadban.
In a narrata account written by his sister, Babak Sadeghi Mohseni, 31, was shot in the head by a sniper from atop the Tehranpars police station on 8 January and admitted as unidentified. When plainclothes agents entered the hospital to take away the wounded and unidentified, staff hid him in the cardiac ward. He died on 10 January; the family found his body three days later in a black bag numbered 12708 and buried him at 6 am on 14 January under heavy security.
Manoto reported that Hamedan's bazaar merchants remained on strike as the twelfth day of nationwide protests began. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
A Manoto video showed plainclothes and uniformed security forces inside Haft-e Tir Boulevard in Mashhad on 8 January. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Manoto published a video of protesters chanting 'This is the last battle, Pahlavi will return' in the town of Nur, Mazandaran. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
A Manoto citizen reporter sent video of night protests in Shiraz's Afifabad neighbourhood on 8 January. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Manoto video showed a large crowd of protesters on Kashani Boulevard in western Tehran on 8 January. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Manoto video showed night protests in Tehran's Fallah neighbourhood on 8 January, a day before Miragha Rezaei was killed there. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
A Manoto citizen reporter said protesters set fire to the Islamic Republic flag during night protests in Gholhak, Tehran. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Manoto published video of night protests in Khalkhal, Ardabil province, on 8 January. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
A Manoto citizen reporter filming night protests in Pasdaran, Tehran, said noises came from the police station and people said it had been set on fire. Not independently confirmed. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Manoto published video of night protests in Kashan on 8 January. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Alireza Rahimi, 26, was killed on the evening of 8 January at Tehranpars Third Square by a live round to the back of the head, Manoto reported. On 21 January family and neighbours marked his birthday at his memorial. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Manoto published video of protesters chanting in Omidiyeh, Khuzestan, on 8 January. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Saeed Tarvand, 33, an oil company contractor from Ilam-Mehran, was killed on Amiri Street in Abadan on 8 January by birdshot fired at close range by security forces, Manoto reported; video of his burial was later published. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
A Manoto citizen reporter in Kerman said a man was shot in the chest at Eqbal intersection on 8 January and was dead by the time people got him to hospital. Further videos showed at least two more protesters being wounded. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Manoto published video from Zarand, Kerman province, captioned that people came out for the first time. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Manoto published videos filmed at a hospital in Narmak, Tehran, in which people say a wounded man had died by the time they arrived and that 'they killed this woman's child'. Date approximate (8 January). Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Manoto video from night protests in Gorgan on 8 January showed people carrying a man who was not moving. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Sanam Pourbabaei, 26, a violin teacher, was shot by security forces near the Shahr-e Sabz cinema in Lahijan on 8 January and died after reaching hospital, Manoto reported citing an informed source. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
A Manoto citizen reporter sent video of night protests in Komijan, Markazi province, on 8 January. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Manoto video from the 8 January protests in Chalus showed a wounded man lying motionless on the ground. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
A Manoto citizen reporter's video from 8 January in Tehransar shows a plainclothes agent dancing after shooting at protesters and then pointing his gun at the person filming. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
A Manoto citizen reporter's video shows a fire engine being used to suppress night protesters in Aliabad-e Katul, Golestan, on 8 January. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Reza Asadi from Gorgan was killed by direct fire from security forces on 8 January. Video of his burial shows his father performing a mourning dance, saying 'this flower was sacrificed for the homeland'. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Mohammad Mehdi Seyfollahpour, born 2002, was killed in Sadeghiyeh, Tehran, on 8 January by a close-range shotgun blast; witnesses said he had his hands up and was shouting 'don't shoot'. His body was released days later under security pressure. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Mohammadreza Ahmadparast, 27, a car mechanic living on Kish, was shot dead on 8 January while helping several young people who had been surrounded, and was buried at night, Manoto reported. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
According to at least two informed sources cited by KHRN, a minimum of 70 bodies of protesters killed by IRGC gunfire on 8 January in neighbourhoods including Darreh Derazh, Nowbahar, Elahieh, Bolvar and Rashidi were taken to Taleghani Hospital in Kermanshah. KHRN called 8 January the deadliest day in Kermanshah.
Pedram Argha, a Yarsan dentist, was shot twice by IRGC forces outside his workplace in Kermanshah's Maskan neighbourhood after stepping in when an officer was beating a protester, and later died. Release of his body was conditional on calling him Basij; at his funeral on 12 January his father said the label was forced.
Hengaw reported that Mohammad Matin Bagheri, 16, was shot dead in Kermanshah's Maskan Bazaar area; witnesses said forces put his badly wounded body in a detention vehicle and later left it by a highway. He was buried on 11 January.
KHRN reported that the bodies of taekwondo athlete Saman Fattahi and Hassan Nouri Kermanshahi, shot by IRGC forces in Kermanshah's Sabouni neighbourhood on 8 January, were released only after payments of seven and six billion rials; Farhad Cheraghizadeh's family paid eight billion.
KHRN reported that Hamid-Reza Bagheri, 20, and four other protesters, Mohammad-Reza Mousavi, Arash Ghoreyshi, Masoud Sougolizadeh and Javad Kazemi, were killed at the same location and time by gunfire from security forces in Eslamshahr. Bagheri's family was made to pay two billion rials for his body. Some TIM records date these deaths to 9 January.
KHRN reported that Mehdi Khakpour, 35, a shopkeeper and father of two, was killed by gunfire from forces stationed at a Basij base during protests in Manjil, Gilan.
Amir Bashiri Chelkasari, 19, was shot in the head with live ammunition during protests near the Dana-ye Ali shrine in Rasht; his family was pressed to say he was Basij to get his body, KHRN reported.
Amir-Ali Jalilian, 65, fell into a coma after being shot repeatedly in the head and body with pellets during protests in Eslamabad-e Gharb on 8 January, and died in hospital on 14 January, KHRN reported.
Intelligence Ministry agents raided Dehloran Hospital on the evening of 8 January and forcibly arrested nurses Ahmad Khosravi, Mohammad Moradi Taregh, Ehsan Ahmadi and Hossein Karami for treating people wounded by government forces, Hengaw reported.
Bahram Zahedi, 42, and Mojtaba Ghorbani, 33, were killed by direct fire from state forces during protests in Rasht on the evening of 8 January, Hengaw reported.
University student Khaled Mollaei, son of Sunni cleric Abdulhamid Mollaei, was shot by government forces while walking home with his brother in Bandar Abbas; Mohammad Mohammadlou was killed in the same incident. Authorities refused to release Mollaei's body and told the family to repeat the official account, Hengaw reported.
Diako (Ako) Mohammadi, 22, was shot dead during protests in Qeshm on 8 January, and security bodies demanded one billion tomans for his body; Mahmoud Mousavi, 29, was shot dead there on 10 January, Hengaw reported.
Mehdi Salahshour, a prominent sculptor, sculpture teacher and father of two, was shot dead with a Kalashnikov by government forces in Mashhad on the evening of 8 January, Hengaw reported.
Nurse Mansoureh Heidari and her husband Behrouz Mansouri were shot dead on the evening of 8 January while standing in front of the Qoran Mosque on Ashouri Street, Bushehr, by government forces stationed inside the mosque, Hengaw reported. She left two children aged 7 and 10.
Sogol Hashemi suffered a broken leg when forces fired live ammunition at protesters in Sari on 8 January; the same day IRGC intelligence arrested her father, Amir Hashemi, and took him to an unknown location, Hengaw reported.
Mehrdad Yaghoubi-Mehr, 28, a University of Tehran chemistry PhD student from Doroud, was shot in the head in the Ghaleh Hassan Khan area of south Tehran during the 8 January protests, IHRNGO reported on 27 January.
Mohammad (Milad) Gholami, 25, a computer science student, was shot in the head with live ammunition at the 8 January protest on Pirouzi Street; his family found his body a week later among corpses laid on the ground at Behesht-e Zahra, his brother told IHRNGO.
Farzin Poost-Ashkan Douraki, 26, a barber, was shot in the back of the head at about 22:45 on 8 January by a sniper firing from a rooftop at the Simin intersection on Dr Hesabi Street, Isfahan, according to sources close to his family who spoke to IHRNGO. (TIM records list 9 January.)
Peyvand Naeimi, a 30-year-old Baha'i dog trainer, was arrested at work by plainclothes IRGC Intelligence agents on 8 January and held in solitary confinement in Kerman Central Prison; IHRNGO reported that he and his cousin Borna were subjected to torture, including mock executions, to force confessions to a murder.
A narrata documentary report says Mehdi Hanifi, 26, from Hamedan, was surrounded by agents in Tehran on the evening of 8 January; they tied his hands behind his back and then shot him at close range while he was defenceless. Credit: narrata.
A narrata documentary report says Ali Molla-Aghaei Rouzbahani, 38, was shot with live ammunition in Haft-e Hoz on 8 January and died at a clinic; on nurses' advice the family removed his body before government forces arrived and buried him unwashed in his bloodied clothes for fear it would be seized. It says his body had been left in the back alley of Al-Ghadir Hospital, where dozens of bodies piled up on 8–9 January. Credit: narrata.
A narrata documentary report cites an eyewitness who says Farid Ramezani, 31, was wounded by direct fire around 22:00 on 8 January in Tehran's Daryacheh neighbourhood, and minutes later agents reached him and shot him in the forehead, then took his phone and necklace. Credit: narrata.
A narrata documentary report says forces fired tear gas and then live rounds from the area of the police station on Mashhad's Haft-e Tir Boulevard on 8 January; Amirreza Akhlaghi, 23, a cook, was hit twice and died at Farabi Hospital, and people who saw his body in the morgue said a third bullet had been fired into his throat. His body was released after three days. Credit: narrata.
A narrata documentary report says Ramtin Keshavarz Ghasemabadi, 31, a biomedical engineer, was shot in the groin during protests in Kelachay on the evening of 8 January and died before reaching Rudsar hospital. Security bodies made release of his body conditional on a written pledge of silence, buried him at 4 a.m. under heavy security, and threatened to arrest his father and brother to stop a public funeral; his 40th-day memorial was later held with protest chants. Credit: narrata.
Jahangir Ahmadiabadi, 31, Sadegh Ahmadiabadi, 36, and their nephew Ali Salehivand, 21, relatives of Reza Ahmadiabadi who was killed in the Fuladshahr protests, were detained with force on 8 January and taken to an undisclosed location, Hengaw reported.
Tiam (Mohammadreza) Kiani-Manesh, 26, died after exposure to a large volume of tear gas fired by government forces at protesters in Kermanshah on 8 January; he was buried on 16 January at Bagh-e Ferdows cemetery, Hengaw reported.
Kamran Akbari, 45, a public-school teacher from Islamabad-e Gharb and father of one, was shot in the abdomen at close range with a military-grade firearm during protests in Kermanshah's Elahiyeh district on 8 January, Hengaw reported.
Government forces opened fire near the couple's home in Kermanshah on the evening of 8 January, killing Shehla Kakaei in front of her house and wounding her husband Mehdi (Khabat) Kakaei, who died by suicide days later, Hengaw reported.
Taher Malekshahi, 12, from Qorveh, was shot in the face and eyes with pellets by government forces during protests on 8 January, losing one eye; authorities pressed his family to say 'terrorists' wounded him in return for state recognition as a war-disabled victim, Hengaw reported.
Amirhossein Moradi, 16, Yazdan Tamanna, 19, Alireza Behboudi, 20, and Kiarash Karimdadi, 22, all Afghan nationals, were shot dead on the evening of 8 January when government forces opened fire at multiple locations in Mashhad, Hengaw reported.
Mehrdad Rasaei, a Yarsan Kurd and brother of Reza Rasaei, executed over the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' movement, was arrested at his home on 8 January and later moved to Dizelabad prison, Hengaw reported.
Ariana Arjmandi, 23, was shot on the evening of 8 January while fleeing plainclothes forces in Borujerd; authorities made release of his body conditional on the family calling him Basij and burying him in another city, Hengaw reported. Hengaw later said he identified as gay.
Milad Azagh, 21, from Dehdasht, was critically wounded in the head or neck by live fire on Nabovat Boulevard near Haft Hoz Park on the evening of 8 January; 41 days later there was still no information on his condition or whereabouts, Hengaw reported.
Seyed Kazem Nazari, a Kurdish officer at Bojnurd Police Station No. 12, refused orders on the evening of 8 January to take part in suppressing protesters and was later sentenced to 13 months in prison, Hengaw reported on 24 February.
As protests began on 8 January in Zahedan, Iranshahr, Chabahar and Saravan, internet access in these areas was widely cut and the security presence visibly increased; local sources said forces fired shots and tear gas to disperse protesters, Haalvsh reported.
Women and men in Iranshahr held a protest at about 10 pm on the night before Friday 9 January, chanting 'Freedom'; sources said many were arrested that night and forces fired tear gas inside the grounds of Khatam hospital where protesters had taken refuge, Haalvsh reported (video published 13 January because of the shutdown). Protests followed Friday prayers in Iranshahr, Chabahar and Zahedan the next day.
Naser Jahanbin (Dahani), about 25, from Ahmadabad near Iranshahr, who worked as a street sweeper for Qeshm municipality, was shot in the neck by security forces during the crackdown on the evening of 8 January and died; he was buried in Ahmadabad on 12 January, Haalvsh reported.
Mohsen Arbabi, 20, from Gosht in Saravan county, who had gone to Karaj for labouring work, was shot in the head with live ammunition during protests on the evening of 8 January; sources said the forensic office asked the family for about one billion tomans to release the body and to declare him a Basij member, which the family rejected, Haalvsh reported. He was buried in Gosht on 13 January.
Gol-Mohammad Paybast (Sarani), about 45, a father of three from Hirmand county living in Golestan province, was shot during the crackdown in Pakdasht on 8 January and died of his wounds the next day; he was buried under direct security supervision without a public ceremony, Haalvsh reported.
Hassan Shayesteh, 35, from Bent in Nikshahr county, was shot in the head and abdomen during the crackdown in Tehran on 8 January; his body was handed to the family on 27 January and buried in Bent on 28 January, Haalvsh reported. (One TIM record for this name lists 1 January.)
Sajjad Ardouni-Kavir, 23, from Zabol and living in Nehbandan, was shot in the head with live ammunition during protests in Sabzevar on 8 January and died the same day, Haalvsh reported on 1 February, citing delays caused by the shutdown.
Mohammad Abdi (Rigi), 21, an economics student at Azad University in Mashhad, was shot in the head with live ammunition near Haft-e Tir in Mashhad on the evening of 8 January after going out with a friend to join the protests, and died at the scene, Haalvsh reported.
Amir Ardalan Amiri, about 22, from Zabol and living in Mashhad, was shot in the back with live ammunition while buying something outside a coffee shop on North Tabarsi Street on the evening of 8 January; he was buried days later under strict security restrictions and not allowed to be taken to his home town, Haalvsh reported.
Masoud Babaei and Ahmad Khaksar were arrested in Shirvan on 8 January; sources close to the families said confessions were extracted under torture and North Khorasan state TV presented them as 'ringleaders'. Hadi Abbasian, also arrested on 8 January, was later reported dead: agents told his mother 'Come for the burial. He has been executed,' but the family was not allowed to see the body, IranWire reported on 9 February.
A report and video sent to Hengaw show a widespread strike by shopkeepers and bazaar merchants in Kerman on Thursday 8 January.
In Lumar, Sirvan county, Ilam province, bazaar merchants and shopkeepers held a full strike on Thursday 8 January and people took to the streets. Reports say protesters set fire to an Ofogh store (linked to the IRGC) and Lumar's Keshavarzi bank, Hengaw reported.
A video sent to Hengaw shows government forces firing into the crowd in Kamyaran on the evening of 8 January, immediately after people began protesting and chanting.
Government forces attacked a gathering in Kermanshah's Elahiyeh district with tear gas and gunfire on the evening of Thursday 8 January, injuring a woman and two men, according to a Hengaw video report.
On the evening of Thursday 8 January, Kurdish anthems were played from mosque loudspeakers in villages in Kurdistan, including Huyeh near Sanandaj, according to a Hengaw video report.
Mohammadreza Ahangar was killed by a direct shot from government agents during protests on Kashani Street at Sadeghiyeh Second Square, Tehran, on 8 January (18 Dey), IranWire reported. Eyewitnesses said the shot to his head was fired from the top of the Goldis complex opposite Ibn Sina hospital.
Masoud Zatparvar, a former world classic physique champion and bodybuilding coach, was killed by government forces during the protests on Thursday 8 January (18 Dey), Independent Persian reported. IranWire gives the date of his killing in Rasht as 9 January (19 Dey). His Instagram page was taken down without explanation after 10 January.
Despite the nationwide communications blackout, protests continued in Tehran, Mashhad and Yazd. Limited footage and witness accounts reaching outside Iran described continued demonstrations and severe violence.
Iran Human Rights reported that protests and killings continued on January 9 while the nationwide internet blackout remained in place. The organization later said many people who went into the streets that day did not know the scale of the killings the previous night.
Hengaw independently verified the identities of eight Kurdish citizens killed by government live fire during protests in Tehran and Karaj on January 8 and 9, including cases from January 9.
Manoto published footage of sustained gunfire by security forces in Saveh on January 9.
Manoto published footage described as documenting the killing of a young citizen by gunfire in Homayoun Shahr, Isfahan.
Manoto republished footage showing sustained shooting by government forces toward citizens on Modarres Boulevard in Shiraz.
Manoto published footage of protests at Third Square in Tehranpars on January 9.
Manoto published footage of nighttime protests in Tehran’s Sattarkhan neighbourhood.
A Manoto contributor in Vakilabad, Mashhad reported direct fire toward people on January 9.
Manoto reported that 32-year-old Payam Rakhsh was killed by direct fire from government forces in Shiraz on January 9.
Citing an informed source, Manoto reported that 54-year-old Miragha Rezaei was killed by direct fire from government forces in Tehran’s Fallah neighbourhood.
In a televised speech, Ali Khamenei described the protesters as rioters and harmful individuals and said Trump's hands were stained with Iranian blood. According to The New York Times, he ordered the Supreme National Security Council the same day to crush the protests 'by any means necessary'.
The head of the North Khorasan judiciary said the prosecutor of Esfarayen and several law enforcement and security officers were killed when the portable cabin they were in was set on fire. TIM's records also list about 25 people killed in Esfarayen on 8 January.
A doctor in Neyshabur told CNN that security forces had killed 'at least 30 people… among them were children', including a five-year-old shot in its mother's arms. Bystanders were also shot, and the injured were afraid to go to hospital.
Doctors told the BBC that hospitals in Tehran and Shiraz were overwhelmed, suspending non-urgent surgery. Many patients had gunshot wounds to the head and eyes.
Buildings were set on fire in Tehran, including mosques in the Gholhak and Saadat Abad neighbourhoods. A former IRGC detainee later told Iran International that he saw orders to remove valuables from a mosque before it was set alight.
Airlines in the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Turkey cancelled flights to Iranian cities as the protests grew.
On the evening of 9 January a sniper shot schoolgirl Bahareh Shahmehri, 17, from behind in Neyshabur, a source close to her family said. Witnesses said the wound was larger than standard ammunition.
A relative said Jahanbakhsh Hesarfirouzeh, 70, was shot from behind at close range with shotgun pellets in Shiraz while trying to stop agents firing at people.
Sajad Rahimi, 36, was shot with live ammunition in Marvdasht on 9 January. A relative said he did not go to hospital for fear of arrest and died from blood loss. Attempts to hold a memorial were met with threats and summonses.
Student Amirhossein Saeedi, 19, was shot on the evening of 9 January and died that night at Fajr Hospital on Piroozi Street. Agents beat his father on the way to hospital, and officials later pressed the family to declare him a 'Basij martyr'.
Dr Mahsa Dezfoulian Kermanshahi, 39, was shot dead in Fardis, Karaj. Her family kept her body at home overnight to prevent 'body theft', and refused an offer to list her as a 'martyr of the Islamic Republic'.
Milad Mianekhah Monfaredi, 29, a former Malavan youth footballer, was shot from behind in Bandar Anzali. Security forces tried to record his death as a narcotics overdose, but the registry recorded a gunshot wound.
Student Amirali Ghanbarzadeh, 16, was shot dead in Garmdareh, Karaj. To release his body, agents made his father choose between saying he was a Basij 'martyr' or that he 'fell from a roof'. The family was barred from posting online.
Danial Barkati, 22, was killed on 9 January and identified days later at Kahrizak. The family was told he died of stab wounds but saw signs of gunshots; release was conditional on declaring him Basij and a designated burial plot.
Bahar Seifi, two, was killed on the evening of 9 January in Neyshabur. State TV later aired an interview in which her family blamed protesters.
TIM victim records list 22 people killed in Arak on 9 January (23 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 25 deaths in Markazi province on that day.
TIM victim records list 14 people killed in Baharestan on 9 January (14 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 250 deaths in Isfahan province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8609/
TIM victim records list 13 people killed in Bandar Abbas on 9 January (13 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 12 deaths in Hormozgan province on that day.
TIM victim records list 17 people killed in Dezful on 9 January (18 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 42 deaths in Khuzestan province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8670/
TIM victim records list 21 people killed in Eslamshahr on 9 January (22 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 381 deaths in Tehran province on that day.
TIM victim records list 52 people killed in Fardis on 9 January (54 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 173 deaths in Alborz province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8591/
TIM victim records list 11 people killed in Gorgan on 9 January (11 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 13 deaths in Golestan province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8646/
TIM victim records list 157 people killed in Isfahan on 9 January (174 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 250 deaths in Isfahan province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8609/
TIM victim records list 89 people killed in Karaj on 9 January (96 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 173 deaths in Alborz province on that day.
TIM victim records list 8 people killed in Kerman on 9 January (8 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 12 deaths in Kerman province on that day.
TIM victim records list 13 people killed in Kermanshah on 9 January (15 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 16 deaths in Kermanshah province on that day.
TIM victim records list 9 people killed in Khorramabad on 9 January (10 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 9 deaths in Lorestan province on that day.
TIM victim records list 19 people killed in Marvdasht on 9 January (20 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 44 deaths in Fars province on that day.
TIM victim records list 108 people killed in Mashhad on 9 January (116 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 158 deaths in Razavi Khorasan province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8543/
TIM victim records list 9 people killed in Najafabad on 9 January (10 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 250 deaths in Isfahan province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8609/
TIM victim records list 17 people killed in Neyshabur on 9 January (17 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 158 deaths in Razavi Khorasan province on that day.
TIM victim records list 14 people killed in Parand on 9 January (15 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 381 deaths in Tehran province on that day.
TIM victim records list 9 people killed in Qarchak on 9 January (9 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 381 deaths in Tehran province on that day.
TIM victim records list 13 people killed in Qazvin on 9 January (14 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 19 deaths in Qazvin province on that day.
TIM victim records list 59 people killed in Rasht on 9 January (62 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 88 deaths in Gilan province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8552/
TIM victim records list 8 people killed in Saveh on 9 January (9 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 25 deaths in Markazi province on that day.
TIM victim records list 18 people killed in Shahriar on 9 January (19 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 381 deaths in Tehran province on that day.
TIM victim records list 13 people killed in Shiraz on 9 January (14 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 44 deaths in Fars province on that day.
TIM victim records list 206 people killed in Tehran on 9 January (232 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 381 deaths in Tehran province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8545/
TIM victim records list 11 people killed in Tehranpars on 9 January (11 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 381 deaths in Tehran province on that day.
TIM victim records list 9 people killed in Torbat-e Jam on 9 January (10 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 158 deaths in Razavi Khorasan province on that day.
Manoto video shows a young man being arrested in a car park in Shiraz on 9 January. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Mohsen Ebrahimzadeh, 35, a gym owner in Saveh, was shot dead by security forces on the evening of 9 January, Manoto reported. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Arshia Ahmadpour, 18, a boxer from Izeh working in Isfahan, was killed by state agents in Isfahan on 9 January; video of his burial was published. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
An eyewitness told Manoto that in video from the evening of 9 January in Fooladshahr, a person on the left of the frame is shot directly and dies; bloodstains from the previous night were visible. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Manoto published video of anti-government chanting in Baghestan, Karaj, on 9 January. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
A Manoto citizen reporter said Arnika Dabbagh was standing next to her mother on Golshahr Boulevard in Gorgan on 9 January when men on motorbikes rode up and shot her at close range; she bled to death. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Saman Delaram, 37, a father of two, was killed in Pardis on 9 January. His family hid his body in a car for two days to keep it from security forces, a caller told Manoto. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Hengaw and KHRN reported that Nazanin-Zahra Salehi, 13, an orphan in her aunt's care, was shot dead at close range by government forces while in a park on Keyhanshahr Boulevard (Zeytoun Complex) in Kermanshah. She was buried on 11 January.
Nazanin-Zahra Esmi-Khani, 18, a photographer and guitarist, was shot in the forehead during protests in Zibashahr, Qazvin province; her body was released after two days for three billion rials, KHRN reported. TIM records date her death to 8 January.
Mahan Mardani Garsadafi, a Shahrood University student from Qasr-e Shirin, was shot in the back outside his family home in Qods (Qaleh Hassan Khan); his mother found his bloodied body when she opened the door. Forces took him to hospital and then Kahrizak, and seven billion rials was initially demanded for the body, KHRN reported.
Javad Ganji, 39, a film and TV director from Hamedan, was shot dead during protests in Tehran's Sadeghiyeh area on Friday 9 January; Hengaw said video it reviewed showed dozens of other civilians killed by direct fire.
Keyvan Amiri, 45, a steel fixer, was killed during the January protests in Iranshahr. His family learned on 11 February and found his body at Iran Hospital with a bullet wound to the throat and a stab wound to the side, IHRNGO reported. (Date from TIM records.)
A narrata documentary report says Farzaneh Tavakoli, 40, a hairdresser and mother of two, was shot from behind around 9 pm on 9 January in Tehran's Khaniabad. Security bodies pressed the family to call her Basij, conditioned release of her body on 'bullet money' and a pledge of no ceremony, refused burial in Arak and threatened to exhume the body; she was buried in the village of Ebrahimabad. Credit: narrata, citing Independent Persian and IranWire.
A narrata documentary report says that on the night of 9 January in Isfahan's Khaneh-ye Isfahan neighbourhood government forces first cut power to the park and street and disabled communications, then opened fire; Babak Jafari, 34, a mechanic, was shot in the back, and his family kept his body at home for two days to prevent it being taken. Credit: narrata.
A narrata documentary report says Mohammad Kiani Harchegani, 32, father of a ten-month-old, was killed by direct fire on Keshavarzi Street, Isfahan, on 9 January; the same day, according to informed sources, security forces raided the family home and arrested his brother, pressed the family to say he was Basij, and released his body only after nine days. Credit: narrata.
A narrata documentary report says Yazdan Afrough, 18, a youth wrestler from Aligudarz, was first hit with birdshot in Shadabad, south-west Tehran, on the evening of 9 January; after he fell, a man approached and shot him in the heart and abdomen. A large sum was demanded for his body and there were attempts to have the family call him Basij. Credit: narrata, citing HRANA.
A narrata documentary report says Matin Parvizi, 22, an animal science student at Zanjan University, was shot in the leg during the Zanjan protests on 9 January while trying to help a mother and child, and agents then came closer and shot him dead. (TIM records list 8 January.) Credit: narrata.
Seyed Farshad Shafiei, 45, his wife Elham Mehrabi and their daughter Seyedeh Ghazal Shafiei, 23, a tanbur musician and teacher, were arrested in a raid on their home in Kerend-e Gharb in the early hours of 9 January, Hengaw reported.
Jalil Doustyar Barahoui, 22, a Baloch labourer from Zahedan working in Meybod, was shot in the chest when government forces opened fire on protesters on 9 January, Hengaw reported, citing Haalvsh.
Borna Dehghani, a 17-year-old Baha'i student, was fatally shot by government forces during protests in Karaj on 9 January, Hengaw reported.
Omid Teymourirad, 47, his brother Amir, 42, and his son Armin, 19, were shot dead during protests in Fardis, Karaj, on the evening of 9 January, and another family member was seriously wounded, Hengaw reported.
Bijan Mostafavi, 55, a retired education employee, his wife Zahra Bani-Amerian, 48, and their son Danial, 19, a computer science student, were shot dead by government forces during protests in Karaj, Hengaw reported. (Date from TIM records.)
Nima Abbasi, 23, a transgender man, was shot in the head at about 9 pm on 9 January in Isfahan while a friend was walking him home, and died later; Hengaw said he was the second transgender man whose killing in the protests it had verified.
Fatemeh Nasiri, a mother of two, and her niece Zahra Jafari, Lor women from Vanak in Semirom County, were shot dead with live ammunition during protests in Baharestan, Isfahan, on 9 January; their families continued to face pressure, Hengaw reported.
Hengaw confirmed the identities of seven Gurji (Georgian-heritage) people, including 18-year-old Hananeh Azizi, shot dead with live ammunition by government forces during the Isfahan protests.
As large protests began after Friday prayers in Zahedan on 9 January, military and security forces around Makki Mosque fired directly at protesters, using tear gas and pellets; at least five protesters were wounded, according to Haalvsh, which published photos of spent cartridges. Women worshippers also gathered near the mosque chanting 'From Zahedan to Tehran, I give my life for Iran'.
Dastgir Gorgij, about 30, a father of two infants without a birth certificate, from Zahedan's Shirabad area, was shot in the head from behind while a passenger in a car returning from a petrol station near the Emamat–Esteghlal crossroads in Mashhad on the evening of 9 January; he died in hospital two days later and was buried under security measures at Behesht-e Reza, Haalvsh reported.
Abolfazl Sheikhveisi, about 18, from Zabol and living in Mashhad's Toroq district, was killed on the evening of 9 January when forces fired directly at him and at least 21 others in Toroq; witnesses told Haalvsh that instead of taking the wounded to hospital, security forces drove them to places out of sight and left them to bleed to death. (TIM records list 8 January.)
Hozeifeh Ostakh (Zargar), 11, registered as Meysam Jahantigh Monfared, was shot below the heart with live ammunition at about 9 pm on 9 January in Hor 13 alley of Shahrak-e Rajaei, Mashhad, after leaving home to buy bread; his family searched police stations for a day before finding him, Haalvsh reported. He was buried beside his uncle, who had been executed about nine years earlier.
On the evening of 9 January protesters burned tyres and blocked the Rask–Chabahar road at Hasanabad village; after a car linked to Basij forces questioned them, more forces arrived and opened fire, killing Ayoub Resaneh, 36, from Firouzabad village, Haalvsh reported.
Hossein Mohebbpour (Mahmoudi), 26, from Bashagard county, who worked at Kish's Marjan pier, was shot in the chest by security forces during the crackdown on the evening of 9 January; his body was taken home and buried nine days later, Haalvsh reported.
Ehsan Toufan (Chatri), 40, from Anbarabad and living in Bandar Abbas, father of a three-year-old girl, was shot from behind in the head and neck during protests outside the IRIB building in Bandar Abbas on 9 January, sources close to the family told Haalvsh. (TIM records list 8 January.)
Marzieh Kamali (Bameri), 23, from Anbarabad, a biomedical engineering student at Azad University in Kerman, was shot in the back on Bahmanyar Street in Kerman during the crackdown on the evening of 9 January and died of her wounds, Haalvsh reported on 29 January.
Mohammad Javad (Mohammad) Sarani, 30, a father from Hirmand county living in Gorgan, was shot by forces during protests in Shahriar on the evening of 9 January and died after being taken to hospital without receiving treatment, Haalvsh reported. (Haalvsh's later list gives him as resident of Tehran; TIM records list 9 and 10 January.)
According to initial information from local sources received by Haalvsh, at least 30 protesters were killed, nearly 100 wounded and more than 500 detained and taken to unknown locations during protests in Torbat-e Jam on the evening of 9 January; the identities had not been confirmed. (TIM victim records list at least 9 deaths there that day.)
BBC Persian verified that 70 bodies were brought to Poursina Hospital in Rasht on the night of Friday 9 January; the morgue was full so the bodies were taken away, and a hospital source said authorities asked relatives for 7 billion rials to release them for burial.
Ghazal Damarcheli, a 17-year-old art student, was shot outside her family home in Karaj on 9 January; a source close to the family told BBC News Persian that security forces refused to let the family bury her nearby and she was buried in a remote cemetery.
Negin Ghadimi, 28, a biotechnology student, joined protests in Tonekabon on 9 January despite her father's pleas; security forces opened fire on the crowd and she was hit in the side and died in her father's arms, telling him 'Dad, I'm burning', a family friend told BBC News Persian.
Hengaw published footage of large crowds of protesters in Tehran's Ekbatan district on Friday 9 January.
Surena Golgoon, an 18-year-old first-semester university student, was shot by security forces in Shahsavar (Tonekabon) on Friday 9 January (19 Dey) and died of a gunshot wound to the chest, Iran International reported.
CTP-ISW recorded 60 protests across 15 provinces on January 10, including 25 medium-sized and eight large demonstrations. It cautioned that the internet shutdown meant its data likely captured only part of actual protest activity.
Manoto published footage of protests at Second Square in Fardis, Karaj on January 10.
BBC Persian reported that during the night Tehran municipal workers were told to collect cartridge cases from the streets and hand them to security forces.
In Tehran's Punak neighbourhood, after street lights were switched off, protesters set off fireworks and lit up the street with their phones.
Witnesses told BBC Persian that, unlike previous days, mostly IRGC and Basij forces using live ammunition were deployed on Saturday. Videos showed explosions during protests in Kerman and gunfire in Mashhad.
Attorney General Mohammad Movahedi-Azad said protesters could be charged as 'enemies of God' (moharebeh), a crime punishable by death.
According to Iran International, at least 2,000 protesters had been killed in the 48 hours since the blackout began, as security forces escalated lethal force.
The 'One Word' lawyers' network called on the international community and Iranian judges to prevent show trials and extrajudicial executions of detained protesters.
Videos geolocated by NBC News showed rows of body bags inside and outside a warehouse at the Kahrizak forensic medical centre, with families trying to identify relatives. HRANA estimated about 250 bodies. State TV later aired its own footage, blaming 'rioters'.
TIM victim records list 17 people killed in Isfahan on 10 January (18 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 20 deaths in Isfahan province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8609/
TIM victim records list 10 people killed in Mashhad on 10 January (11 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 9 deaths in Razavi Khorasan province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8543/
TIM victim records list 19 people killed in Tehran on 10 January (19 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 20 deaths in Tehran province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8545/
Manoto published video from Isfahan on 10 January showing blood flowing in front of a resident's house. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
A Manoto citizen reporter's video shows plainclothes forces firing during night protests on Vakilabad, Mashhad, on 10 January. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
The judiciary's media centre announced on 10 January that all cafés owned by former national footballer Voria Ghafouri in Tehran were sealed by order of the Tehran prosecutor for supporting the Kurdistan-wide general strike, Hengaw reported.
Hengaw verified at least 14 Lors, including one woman, killed in Nurabad (Mamasani), Fars, between 8 and 10 January. After a funeral on 10 January for three people killed on 8 January, marchers briefly took the courthouse; forces encircled them and snipers fired from rooftops. Wounded people sheltering in shops were shot again at close range, and Parisa Lashkari, 30, was shot in the heart after calling for help.
Ejmin Masihi, an Armenian resident of Tehran's Majidiyeh, was shot dead by state forces during protests in Narmak on 10 January, Hengaw reported.
Esmail Qalandarzehi (Keshani), 21, from Zahedan and living in Bandar Abbas, was shot in the head with live ammunition during protests in Bandar Abbas on the evening of 10 January; the Persian Gulf hospital called the family to collect his body and he was buried in Zahedan on 12 January, Haalvsh reported.
By the end of 10 January HRANA had confirmed 116 deaths in connection with the protests, seven of them under 18, and said most were killed by live ammunition or pellets, mostly at close range; it also counted 37 members of the security forces and one prosecutor killed, 2,638 arrests, and protests at 574 locations in 185 cities across all 31 provinces.
According to footage received by Hengaw, people in Rasht took to the streets for a third consecutive day on the evening of Saturday 10 January, chanting 'death to the dictator'.
Hengaw published video of large crowds in Tehran's streets around Heravi and 20th Street on the evening of Saturday 10 January, saying it coincided with protests in several other major cities.
Videos received by Iran International showed continued protests in Tehran, including Punak, and in Shahsavar in Mazandaran. The demonstrations continued during a near-total internet blackout.
CTP-ISW recorded 22 protests across nine provinces on January 11 but assessed that the lower visible count was largely due to the internet shutdown and interference with Starlink.
Reports said the authorities disrupted Starlink satellite internet nationwide, with up to 80% of its traffic interrupted by jamming.
The Media Line reported that Iraqi militia members were paid about $600 each to help suppress the protests, and that by 11 January more than 60 buses of about 50 people each had crossed the border.
An official table published on 11 January listed at least 136 police, IRGC and Basij casualties by province, without names and without figures for Tehran and Mazandaran. Iran Human Rights later verified 138 state personnel killed.
TIM victim records list 8 people killed in Tehran on 11 January (8 records before merging likely duplicates). The records are compiled from rights-group lists and family and witness reports; the list is not final. Iran Human Rights' September 2026 list records 5 deaths in Tehran province on that day. Iran Human Rights describes the shootings in the area: https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8545/
The burial of Ali-Reza Seydi, 16, a labourer from Abdanan shot dead in Tehran on 8 January, drew a large crowd chanting anti-government slogans; reports said security forces fired live ammunition directly at mourners, KHRN reported. Place of burial assumed to be Abdanan.
Police chief Ahmadreza Radan said on 11 January that, in coordination with security bodies, the 'level of confrontation' with those he called rioters had been raised, announced 'important arrests' and said the judiciary would deal with detainees, Haalvsh reported.
On the evening of 11 January the government declared three days of public mourning and, without mentioning the security forces, attributed the deaths of protesters and security personnel to 'urban terrorist criminals', likening them to ISIS; the same day state TV aired footage from a large warehouse of bodies, blaming protesters for the killings, HRANA reported. HRANA's confirmed toll rose that day to 544, with 579 further deaths under review.
Videos from Behesht Zahra cemetery in Tehran showed families who had buried relatives killed in the protests chanting protest slogans at the graves.
Tens of thousands attended a pro-government rally in Tehran, attended by President Pezeshkian. Iran International and France 24 reported that some images of the rallies were altered or old.
Human Rights Watch said it was documenting emerging evidence of large-scale killings since 8 January, including verifying footage from morgues and hospitals, and warned detainees faced secret executions on 'enmity against God' charges.
After a multi-stage investigation using government sources, medical staff and witnesses, Iran International said at least 12,000 people were killed, mostly on 8 and 9 January, by IRGC and Basij forces. Other groups said the figure was hard to verify.
In a televised statement, the Tehran prosecutor's office said an unspecified number of protesters would be charged with moharebeh, which carries the death penalty.
The Guardian reported hundreds of gunshot eye injuries treated at a single Iranian hospital. Later reports said about 1,000 people with severe eye injuries were admitted to Farabi Eye Hospital in Tehran.
Iran Human Rights listed at least 12 suspicious deaths in the months after the protests, including Mehdi Mesbah, 49, who died in Karaj on 13 January, a day after an altercation with state-affiliated people; IHR's victim account says he was killed by forced ingestion of a pill.
Alireza Parsa, a doctor, wounded veteran and former prisoner of the Iran-Iraq war, said in a video on 13 January that he had been summoned to Shazand Revolutionary Court over his online posts and joining a recent protest. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
The Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers' Unions reported that at least 100 school-age children were arrested during protests in Harsin, KHRN said. KHRN separately documented at least 20 detainees aged 13–17 in Ilam, Kermanshah and Kurdistan.
Ten Baloch men were violently detained in a raid by government forces in the Shirabad area of Zahedan on 13 January, and two Baloch women were arrested in Chabahar, Hengaw reported.
Molavi Abdolhamid wrote on X on 13 January that the killing of thousands of protesters in Tehran and other cities was a 'horrific and unprecedented catastrophe' and that those who ordered and carried it out are responsible, Haalvsh reported.
BBC Verify and BBC Persian analysed a video showing nearly 200 bodies laid out in a morgue, many with visible wounds, including a 16-year-old.
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) said at least 3,428 protesters were killed and at least 10,000 arrested, most of them during 8 to 12 January.
Judiciary chief Mohseni-Ejei said on state TV: 'If we want to do something, we have to do it quickly… two months, three months later, it doesn't have the same effect.'
HRANA reported that at least 52 prisoners were executed in Iran between 5 and 14 January, during the protests and internet shutdown.
A volunteer first responder in Ardabil who had treated more than 20 wounded people at home was violently arrested on 14 January; security forces wrecked his house, belongings and car.
A narrata documentary report says Mobarakeh Steel welder Peyman Barati, 32, was wounded in the thigh by live fire on 9 January and arrested that night; informed sources say he was shot dead on 14 January and his body bore signs of torture. The body was returned on 15 January and buried under armed guard on 16 January. Credit: narrata, citing Iran International.
Amnesty International said verified videos and eyewitness accounts from 10 cities in Alborz, Gilan, Kermanshah, Razavi Khorasan, Sistan and Baluchestan and Tehran showed a coordinated nationwide escalation of lethal force from the evening of 8 January, including direct fire without warning in Razavi Khorasan and killings in Kermanshah, Eslamabad-e Gharb and Gilan-e Gharb.
Ebrahim Ghaljaei, about 24, from Mirjaveh, was hit by about 48 pellets to the head, face, neck, chest, abdomen and legs when forces fired on protesters near the Khajeh Rabi shrine in Mashhad on 14 January; he died after eight days in Imam Reza hospital, Haalvsh reported.
CTP-ISW recorded no protests on January 15 and assessed that widespread security deployments, reported nighttime restrictions and the violent crackdown had suppressed street demonstrations for the moment.
The United States sanctioned Supreme National Security Council secretary Ali Larijani and four other security officials for their role in suppressing the protests.
After international reports that Erfan Soltani had been sentenced to death, Iran's judiciary said the charges against him did not carry the death penalty.
IHRNGO said it had new evidence that state forces used DShK and other mounted heavy machine guns against protesters in mass killings between 8 and 11 January, and that cities were under evening restrictions on movement consistent with de facto martial law.
Filterwatch published a report on what it described as the government's confidential long-term plan for 'absolute digital isolation', saying state media and officials had signalled that unrestricted access would not return.
Moslem Hassanzehi, 20, from Khajeh Mesk village near Zahedan, who had gone to Nowshahr for construction work, was hit by three live rounds in the abdomen and hand as he left a shop near protests on the evening of 15 January; he died in hospital on 20 January, Haalvsh reported.
HRANA reported that 22,104 protesters had been arrested.
Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami used the Tehran Friday prayer sermon to call for the execution of detained protesters.
A small protest was reported in Zahedan after a Friday sermon by Sunni cleric Molavi Abdolhamid, who condemned the government's response to the protests.
According to Amnesty International, UN Special Rapporteur on Iran Mai Sato said in a media interview on 16 January that at least 5,000 people had been killed and that, according to medical sources, the toll might be as high as 20,000.
Invitations to Islamic Republic officials to attend the Munich Security Conference were cancelled, a move HRANA described as a sign of Iran's growing diplomatic isolation over the crackdown.
In a speech broadcast by state media, Ali Khamenei acknowledged for the first time that 'several thousand' people had been killed, while calling protesters and their foreign backers 'criminals'.
Iran International reported that security forces were visiting homes and businesses to identify protesters, demanding CCTV footage, and setting up checkpoints to detain people with protest images on their phones.
Protester Amirhossein Ghaderzadeh, 19, was sentenced to death by hanging, with the execution reportedly set for 21 January.
Law enforcement officials reported on 17 January that more than 1,500 people had been detained in Gilan province, while the Tehran prosecutor denied claims that protesters' executions had been cancelled, saying the judiciary's response would be 'decisive, swift and deterrent' and that many cases had been indicted and sent to court, HRANA reported.
Hackers hijacked IRIB transmissions and aired footage of Reza Pahlavi and of men in security-force uniform urging forces not to 'point your weapons at the people'.
An Iranian official told Reuters that at least 5,000 deaths had been verified, including about 500 security personnel, and blamed 'terrorists and armed rioters'.
As internet access partly returned, images from forensic centres, morgues and cemeteries showed many bodies not yet handed over. Families said bodies were released only if they signed pledges, accepted the official account or buried at night. Some were asked to pay for the bullets.
An eyewitness in Arak told Manoto that in the first days of protests security forces fired directly at protesters, that he saw 27 people shot and wounded, and that at least 247 people were killed in Arak, according to him. The figure is not independently verified; TIM records list far fewer names for Arak. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
A Manoto citizen reporter in Najafabad said at least 300 people were killed in the first two days of the crackdown, according to him, and that the main streets were full on the first night. The figure is not independently verified. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Asian boxing champion Mohammad Mahshari and his coach Behnam Daniali were arrested in Maragheh on 18 January; Hengaw said the head of Maragheh's boxing board cooperated with security bodies in their arrest.
The Press Supervisory Board suspended Ham-Mihan newspaper. Its editor said the reason was an article titled 'The Hospital Story from Ilam to Sina' on breaches of medical neutrality.
Razavi Khorasan's intelligence department announced the arrest of 192 people in connection with the protests.
Emergency medicine specialist Babak Pouramin was arrested in Neyshabur and taken to Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad, with limited family contact and no lawyer. Reported by HRANA on 27 January.
State TV aired the confession of Fathollah Avari, 42, accused of killing police major Mohammadjavad Bakhshian in Hamedan; Iran Human Rights said he looked visibly distressed. He was hanged on 3 June.
KHRN said at least 150 Kurdish citizens had been killed and more than 1,500 arrested. Sources said security agencies demanded seven to ten billion rials for some bodies, and injured protesters were detained after going to hospitals.
The deputy for security affairs of the Razavi Khorasan governorate said 'around 400 people' had been killed in Mashhad. The remark, first published by pro-government media, was later removed.
A group of doctors, paramedics and forensic specialists analysed published images of the dead and injured. They described bodies found outside hospitals still carrying medical lines and tubes, untreated gunshot wounds, signs of mutilation and the collective moving of bodies.
The head of the Legal Medicine Organization announced a 'final report' of 3,117 people killed in the 'recent incidents', including women, children and passers-by, and blamed 'terrorist elements'. Rights groups' counts are far higher.
Iranian authorities said the protests had been suppressed, and Prosecutor-General Mohammad Movahedi-Azad declared that the unrest had ended.
Salah Yousefi, a Kurdish protest detainee from Javanrud living in Sari, faced a moharebeh charge over alleged links to Israel and the US; his family was told only verbally by the IRGC in Sari, Hengaw reported.
Tasnim, citing the Intelligence Ministry, said on 21 January that 11 people were arrested and Gol-Mohammad Shahouzehi was killed in joint operations on the outskirts of Zahedan, calling them Ansar al-Furqan members. Haalvsh identified him as a wushu champion, coach and referee and a former political prisoner, and said no independent evidence supported the claim; Ansar al-Furqan denied any link to him.
BBC Verify analysed 392 leaked photos taken inside the Kahrizak Forensic Medical Centre in south Tehran and identified at least 326 distinct victims, including 18 women; many bodies carried labels dated 9 January. Sources claimed the true number of dead at the mortuary ran into the thousands.
IranWire reported that Ali Rahbar, 33, a protester detained in Mashhad, had been executed. The judiciary denied it, saying no such person had been detained.
UN Special Rapporteur on Iran Mai Sato said the number of civilians killed may surpass 20,000 and that the killings should be examined as possible crimes against humanity.
The Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council denied money had been demanded from families for bodies, saying that where burial fees had been charged at religious sites orders were given to stop and refund them. Rights groups had documented 'bullet money' demands.
At an emergency session, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution condemning the violent suppression of protests, by 25 votes to 7 with 14 abstentions, and extended the mandates of the Special Rapporteur and the Fact-Finding Mission.
State-affiliated media reported the arrest of 148 people in Hamedan on charges including 'making and distributing hand grenades' and links to Israel and Iran International.
Witnesses told The New York Times that bodies were dumped from refrigerated trucks and piled up, that families searched among them, and that some paid up to $6,000 to recover a body while others were taken to mass graves.
State media aired a documentary with confessions of defendants in the 'Alikhani Square' case over the killing of four police officers in Isfahan. Iran Human Rights said defendants were tortured to extract false confessions; 16 were indicted.
Iran Human Rights listed the death of Milad Malekmohammadi from Amlash, whose body was recovered on 23 January, as suspicious and linked to state security operations.
Hengaw reported that Mehdi Ghanbari, 27, wounded on 8 January, died on 17 January. His family was told either to call him a Basij member killed by protesters or pay 500 million tomans and not bury him in Malekshahi; unable to pay, they complied, and residents then refused his burial in the town and boycotted the funeral. Reported on 23 January.
As the blackout entered its third week, NetBlocks said there were 'indications of an attempt to generate false traffic and manufacture narratives of a wider restoration', with much of the activity apparently from tunnelled users.
Amnesty said that since 8–9 January the authorities had kept a complete internet blackout, deployed heavily armed patrols, imposed night-time curfews and banned gatherings, arrested thousands, and subjected detainees to enforced disappearance and torture including sexual violence, while harassing bereaved families.
Rozhin Hosseininejad, a 20-year-old Baha'i who suffers from liver cirrhosis, was arrested at her family home in Kerman on 24 January and taken to the city's prison, where she remained despite specialists and the prison doctor confirming she needed specialised care, IranWire reported on 6 February.
HRANA reported credible information that detained women and teenage girls had been transferred collectively to the political ward of Adelabad prison in Shiraz despite severe shortages of space and facilities; families seeking information faced threats and summonses and some were made to sign pledges to stay silent.
By day 28, HRANA had confirmed 5,459 deaths (5,149 protesters, including 60 children; 208 government-affiliated; 42 bystanders), with 17,031 more under investigation, plus 40,887 arrests including at least 325 children, 7,403 severely injured, 205 broadcast forced confessions and 11,023 people summoned by security agencies.
The board of the Iranian Sociological Association, referring to the killing of thousands of citizens, called for an immediate halt to the cycle of violence and warned that normalising death and violence would devastate public trust, HRANA reported.
The government spokesperson spoke of the possibility of full confiscation of the property of people accused of 'encouraging or cooperating' with the protests, HRANA reported.
Reports from Farabi Specialized Eye Hospital said about 1,000 people with ruptured or severely injured eyes were admitted; equipment and stretchers were borrowed from other hospitals and security forces entered wards including ICUs.
Aria Sheikhi was arrested in Masjed Soleyman on 25 January and taken to Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz, where ill-treatment has been reported, Manoto said. He had previously been arrested in 2019 and 2022. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
The UN Special Rapporteur on Iran expressed serious concern over numerous reports of injured people being abducted from hospitals and taken to detention, calling it a clear violation of the right to medical treatment.
The statue in Iranshahr's Basij Square, seen as a symbol of the Basij and IRGC, was covered with red paint on its mouth, face and body on the evening of 26 January, an act residents described as symbolising the blood of protesters killed in the crackdown, Haalvsh reported.
Farhad Nadali, a doctor at 5 Azar Hospital in Gorgan, was reportedly arrested by IRGC intelligence for treating the injured and opposing armed forces inside the hospital. It was also alleged that forces fired at protesters from the hospital roof.
HRANA reported that the first court hearing related to the protests was held in Malard.
Dr Alireza Golchini, a Qazvin surgeon, was arrested in a violent raid on his family home for treating injured protesters and charged with moharebeh; forces beat him and broke several of his teeth, Hengaw reported on 27 January.
Teacher and children's rights activist Ali Cheraghi was arrested after security agents raided his home in Tehran's Punak neighbourhood; his phone and devices were taken and his Instagram page went offline.
Internet access began to partially resume on 28 January after 20 days, according to monitoring groups and users, but remained heavily restricted and unstable; signs of reconnection on 25 January had been reversed shortly afterwards.
IranWire reported that Communications Minister Sattar Hashemi acknowledged the internet shutdown was costing the economy $35.7 million a day.
EU ministers approved new sanctions over the crackdown and designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation.
HRANA reported that at least 706 people were arrested in 24 hours in Dezful, Yazd, Borujen, Borujerd and Nur. Hormozgan intelligence separately announced 65 arrests.
The World Health Organization said it had confirmed an attack on a hospital in Iran during the crackdown and stressed the need to protect health facilities.
The Coordination Council of Teachers' Trade Associations said several teachers were killed during the protests, naming Kamran Akbari, Karamali Alaei and Reza Karimi-Far (Ansari-Far).
A Tehran source said that after the protests, medical university and security officials visited a specialised eye hospital and took the names of everyone admitted between 8 and 12 January.
Iran Human Rights listed the death of Bijan Habibi, 26, in Zanjan as suspicious: it followed his stated intent to expose CCTV footage. The official cause was suicide.
While state media confirmed 3,000 arrests, IHRNGO estimated that at least 40,000 people, including children, had been detained, with eyewitnesses reporting checkpoints and door-to-door searches and many detainees held incommunicado without lawyers of their choice.
Dr Masoud Ebadifard Azari, head of Pasteur Hospital in Qazvin, and his wife Dr Parisa Porkar were detained over their role in treating people injured in the protests, Hengaw reported on 30 January.
At least seven relatives of Arman Gorjian, 19, a protester killed in January, were arrested in Nurabad (Mamasani), Fars, with no information on their whereabouts, Hengaw reported on 30 January.
Amin Pourfarhang, a Kurdish pharmacy student at Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, was detained during protests in Shirvan and was being prosecuted for moharebeh, putting him at risk of a death sentence, Hengaw reported.
The US Treasury announced a new sanctions package naming Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni, IRGC Intelligence Organisation head Majid Khademi, Babak Zanjani and several IRGC commanders, HRANA reported.
According to a report cited by HRANA, 106 indictments had been issued in Kerman province in protest-related cases and 20 people remained in detention.
Screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian, Abdollah Momeni and Vida Rabbani, who had signed a statement calling the killings a crime against humanity, were arrested in Tehran. Mahmoudian was released on 17 February.
The Wall Street Journal published accounts that the authorities had executed injured protesters, as part of a report on the Gen Z protesters who were killed.
Two protesters were reportedly arrested in Lahijan and a video of their 'forced confessions' was released at the same time.
Iran Human Rights listed the death of Fereshteh Dolatkhah, 24, in Kermanshah in late January as suspicious; the official cause given to her family was a gas leak. The incident linked to her death was on 8 January.
State TV Channel 5 broadcast a forced confession by Abolfazl Salehi, 20, a Kurdish detainee in Mashhad, who people close to him said had been severely tortured, Hengaw reported.
The Office of the President published a list of 2,986 people killed in the 'recent incidents', out of the 3,117 it had announced, saying 131 were still unidentified. HRANA said the list lacked dates, places and circumstances of death.
A state TV programme aired a 'game' asking where the bodies of those killed were kept, with mocking answer options. After a public backlash, a network director was dismissed and the programme suspended.
The United Kingdom sanctioned Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni and nine other officials for their role in the crackdown.
Haalvsh said on 2 February that it had identified 19 people from Sistan and Baluchestan province killed in connection with the crackdown, 16 of them Baloch, in cities including Mashhad, Qeshm, Kish, Bandar Abbas, Karaj, Pakdasht, Tehran, Shahriar, Kerman, Sabzevar, Nowshahr, Meybod and Rask; most were killed on 8 and 9 January.
A group of Iranian ophthalmologists published an open letter warning of a growing number of severe eye injuries and permanent blindness caused by pellet guns in the crackdown, calling the targeting of faces and eyes medically and ethically unacceptable, HRANA reported. Teachers' associations and the Union of Social Science Associations issued condemnations the same day.
The provincial intelligence directorates of Yazd and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari announced the arrest of 188 and 85 people respectively in connection with the protests; state media also reported 49 arrests in Pardis, HRANA reported.
Iran International's editorial board said it had compiled a list of 6,634 protest-related deaths with names, photos, cities and circumstances, and that fewer than 100 names overlapped with the government list.
Medical sciences students in Tabriz held an on-campus memorial with photos of those killed; similar gatherings were reported in Mashhad and Shiraz.
Iran Human Rights verified that by 3 February at least 35 doctors, nurses and medical workers had been arrested for treating protesters, in Isfahan, Tehran, Mashhad, Golpayegan, Kermanshah and Qazvin.
HRANA reported a mass case in which 263 people were detained in Bandar Anzali and two in Langarud.
In a message from Isfahan Central Prison, Heshmatollah Tabarzadi warned of 'horrifying' conditions, saying some detainees with gunshot and shrapnel wounds were held without medical treatment.
In its World Report 2026, Human Rights Watch said Iran carried out executions in 2025 on a scale unseen since the late 1980s and that, from 8 January, security forces carried out mass killings, with many protesters and bystanders shot in the head and torso.
Ayatollah Bayat Zanjani said he would not hold Mid-Sha'ban celebrations, in solidarity with the families of those killed in January. The teachers' council said more than 160 students had been killed.
Nima Jafari, 22, from Eyvan, was detained by intelligence agents in Bandar Abbas on 6 February and killed under severe torture after several days in custody; his body was taken to Eyvan escorted by intelligence vehicles, Hengaw reported.
Paralympic athlete Sajjad Salarvand was arrested by the IRGC Intelligence Organisation and temporarily released after posting bail of 5 billion tomans; the same day Premier League futsal referee Niloufar Mir-Karimi resigned in protest, saying life could not go on as normal while citizens' blood was being shed, HRANA reported.
Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison and two years of internal exile in Khosf for 'gathering and collusion' and propaganda.
HRANA reported that security forces searched journalist Azadeh Mokhtari's home, took her phone and ID documents and barred her from social media; photographer Yalda Moaiery's equipment was seized. A wanted protester was reported killed during an arrest attempt.
Four reformist politicians, including Azar Mansouri, Ebrahim Asgharzadeh and Mohsen Aminzadeh, were arrested on charges of trying to 'disrupt the country's political and social order'.
The Coordinating Council of Teachers' Trade Associations said at least 200 school students were killed in the crackdown and published a list of their names.
HRANA reported that at least 43 people were arrested in Behbahan, 26 of whom were later released.
The Ministry of Health's deputy for cultural and student affairs said nearly 100 students had been killed during the protests and some remained in detention.
Manoto published video of night-time chanting in Tehran's Marzdaran neighbourhood on 8 February. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Based on interviews with several recently released detainees aged 18 to 32 from different cities and detention facilities, Hengaw reported on 8 February a consistent pattern of sexual, physical and psychological abuse to extract confessions, the use of female interrogators to humiliate young male detainees, threats of execution, mock trials and summary court sessions held days after arrest.
Students at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad gathered to commemorate students killed in the protests and to demand news of detained classmates.
A labour union said workers in Asaluyeh who intended to strike were detained collectively and held in warehouses belonging to their employers.
Political activist Hossein Karroubi, son of Mehdi Karroubi, was arrested after being summoned to the Media and Culture Prosecutor's Office, his lawyer said.
A judiciary-affiliated outlet called reports of a death sentence for 26-year-old Mashhad footballer Mohammad Hossein Hosseini 'unfounded', saying his case was at the preliminary investigation stage.
The Guardian reported on findings that Chinese technology underpins Iran's internet control.
According to documents obtained by Hengaw, at least 139 children (134 boys and five girls) were arrested in Hamedan province between 30 December and 25 January and held in Hamedan, Nahavand, Malayer and the Hamedan juvenile correction centre. Hengaw separately reported at least 50 women held in Hamedan and Malayer prisons.
BBC News Persian said on 9 February that it had verified the identities of more than 200 of the thousands killed, using social media, verified footage, funeral and morgue images and eyewitness accounts, and published them on an interactive 'face wall'; at the time HRANA had confirmed 6,872 protester deaths.
Official media reported the arrest of 100 people in Ardabil in connection with the protests, with no details about their identities or where they were held.
On the night of 10 to 11 February, as official ceremonies marked the 1979 revolution anniversary, people chanted anti-government slogans from their homes in Karaj, Babol, Tehran's Chitgar area, Kermanshah and other cities.
Students in some Chabahar schools were told they would face disciplinary action and threats of expulsion if they did not attend the state rally on 11 February (22 Bahman), local sources told Haalvsh.
On the anniversary of the 1979 revolution, President Masoud Pezeshkian apologised to the nation for the crackdown on the protests.
In a live broadcast, a Sistan and Baluchestan provincial TV presenter said people at the 11 February rally had chanted 'Death to Khamenei'. The clip spread widely on social media. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Alireza Zarfchi, a champion, referee and coach of 'Iron Men' strongman competitions, resigned his posts in a tearful Instagram video, mentioning the killing of Masoud Zatparvar and saying 'he was a protester, not a terrorist'. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
National fencing team member Mohammad Rahimi announced on Instagram he was leaving the national team, citing people's suffering and injustice. Source: Manoto TV Telegram post.
Families of at least three detainees in Shahin Shahr said that although bail had been posted, judicial authorities halted their release until they signed a pledge to attend the 11 February rally and send photos and videos of their attendance, under threat of re-arrest, HRANA reported.
At least eight teachers were arrested in connection with the protests: Mastoureh Narimani in Ahvaz, Amir Rahimi in Azna, Sattar Zarei in Khomeini Shahr, Ali Shamaili in Songhor, Shervin Hamideh in Karaj, Farhad Rahmani in Takestan, Ali Imani Motlagh in Lorestan and Masoud Kiani in Shabad, HRANA reported.
Saleh Mohammadi, a teenage protester and wrestler, was sentenced to qisas for the alleged murder of a policeman at the 8 January protest in Qom; the court rejected his testimony that his confessions were obtained under torture and ordered a public execution at the scene, IHRNGO reported.
Numerous people, including journalists, reported their SIM cards being blocked without official notice, cutting calls and text messages; in some cases phones, laptops and identity documents including passports were also confiscated. HRANA said the practice began around the peak of the protests and has also cut some people off from banking and work services.
The European Parliament adopted by majority a resolution condemning the crackdown, calling for the immediate release of detainees, independent documentation and preservation of evidence for future prosecutions, and an end to pressure on medical staff, HRANA reported.
The Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers' Trade Associations reported that people from outside school staff, including Basij members, preachers and plainclothes agents, were entering schools with pre-planned programmes to screen and pressure students, including repeated questioning, HRANA reported.
Iltay Akhoundi, a 14-year-old detainee in Gonbad-e Kavus, was reportedly denied full access to his asthma medication, and Abolfazl Karimi was transferred from Greater Tehran prison to Qezel Hesar after reportedly being tortured and suffering a broken arm, HRANA reported.
UN Special Rapporteur Mai Sato warned that fair-trial violations, pressure on detainees and forced confessions continued, and said there was no reliable data on detainees, death sentences or executions.
Five boxers from Masal, Milad Shahbazi, Saman Nourmohammadi, Mojtaba Yazdani, Majid Habibzadeh and Behnam Zafari, were arrested on 13 February in group raids on their homes, Hengaw reported.
MP Mohammad Seraj said a number of bodies of people killed in the protests were still unidentified because 'no one has come to claim these bodies' and they had no identification documents.
Three people were charged with 'involvement in setting fire to a mosque' and responsibility for the 'death of two individuals in Pakdasht', amid reports of limited access to lawyers and coerced confessions.
Composer and singer Sohrab Pournazeri was detained for several hours on returning to Iran; a judicial case was opened against him and his passport confiscated.
Iran Human Rights listed the death of Abbas Deljouyi, 21, from Ahvaz, as suspicious: he was arrested on 8 January and died of cardiac arrest in his sleep, preceded by visible bruising and weight loss.
A street protest was held in Abdanan.
An Iranian court sentenced 14 protesters to death in a case heard online. Several detainees said they had been tortured into signing confessions.
Molavi Mohammad Tayeb Esmailzehi, administrative director of Makki Mosque and son of Molavi Abdolhamid, was arrested on 16 February after three days of summons and interrogation, Hengaw reported.
Molavi Tayeb Esmailzehi, son of Molavi Abdolhamid, was questioned for hours on two consecutive days at the Special Clerical Court in Mashhad, arrested on 16 February and freed hours later on 5 billion tomans bail; sources said the judge pressed him to condemn mosque burnings and the killing of officers and protesters on Instagram, Haalvsh reported. (Hengaw reported the arrest in Zahedan.)
During protests in Abdanan around the 40th-day memorials for those killed in January, security forces reportedly fired on mourners.
A narrata documentary report says security forces raided the 40th-day memorial in Bagh Malek for Hossein Pooshaneh, 19, shot dead on Naderi Street in Ahvaz on 9 January, and arrested attendees; it names 15 detainees reported by 'Voice of Iran's Detainees'. Witnesses said forces dragged his body about 200 metres. Credit: narrata, citing Iran International. Date approximate (40th day).
Government forces arrested at least nine Kurds in Abdanan and Sarableh on 17 February, coinciding with the 40th-day memorial of slain protester Alireza Seydi, Hengaw reported.
Security forces stormed a 40th-day memorial for slain protesters in Mashhad on 17 February; Arian Nabati, 18, was shot dead while trying to leave on a motorcycle with friends, and authorities later claimed it was an 'accident', Hengaw reported.
A protest was held in Najafabad.
Security forces and vehicles were deployed across Mashhad as memorials were held for protesters killed in January.
An Iranian court sentenced to death three brothers from Shahinshahr who had been arrested during the protests.
IHRNGO said at least 26 protesters had been sentenced to death and hundreds more, including children, faced capital charges; the judiciary spokesperson had announced 8,843 indictments over the protests, a day after the judiciary chief ordered action 'without any leniency'.
IRGC intelligence chief Majid Khademi said in an interview published on 19 February that a total ban on foreign social media platforms was intended to 'prevent enemy plots', linking it to expansion of the national internet, Iran International reported.
Abdollah Poreki, 19, a father of a six-month-old, died under severe torture on 19 February, two days after being detained by the Intelligence Ministry in Mehrestan; the same day officials summoned and threatened his family, Hengaw reported.
Amnesty International said it had documented at least 30 people facing the death penalty over the January protests: eight already sentenced and 22 others, including two 17-year-olds, on trial or awaiting trial on capital charges.
Seven more protesters, including a 19-year-old, were sentenced to death.
At least 19 Lors were arrested in Baghmalek County on 20 February and transferred to Sepidar prison in Ahvaz, Hengaw reported.
As the new semester began, around the 40th-day memorials of those killed, students protested at Shahid Beheshti, Amirkabir, Sharif and Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. The Sharif protest was attacked by Basij members.
Biology teacher Vahid Qasemi was arrested at his school in Fariman on 21 February by police intelligence, and his mother Mahnaz Haddad Kakhki, 53, an elementary teacher, was arrested the next day; both were taken to Vakilabad prison, Hengaw reported.
Residents of Abdanan gathered outside the city's police station and intelligence office on Saturday 21 February, chanting anti-government slogans, after political prisoner and retired teacher Yaghoub Mohammadi was violently arrested, according to a Hengaw video report.
Intelligence agents arrested Nirvana Torbatinezhad and her mother Roqiyeh (Sayeh) Amirkhani on 22 February at the 40th-day memorial for Hossein Soleimani, a protester killed in Gorgan, Hengaw reported.
Samira and Azin Kordi, nurses and maternal aunts of slain protester Surena Golgoon, were arrested in raids on their home and workplace in Tonekabon on 22 February, and the sister of Mehdi Saheli was arrested in Ramsar, Hengaw reported.
Iran International reported that Mohammad Abbasi, a protester from Malard, had been sentenced to death and his daughter to 25 years in prison. Date of sentencing not confirmed.
HRANA published 'The Crimson Winter', covering the first 50 days, with names of 7,007 confirmed dead: 6,488 adult protesters, 236 children, 207 security force members and 76 non-participants. Another 11,744 cases were still under review.
On the fourth day of student protests, Basij members and security forces attacked student protesters at several universities.
Human Rights Watch said on 24 February that authorities held protest detainees incommunicado and in unofficial facilities, refused to tell families their fate or whereabouts, and tortured protesters on the streets and in detention. It said it had credible information that Narges Mohammadi, detained since 12 December, was pressured to condemn the protests and beaten at the time of her arrest.
Students at the Iran University of Art held a protest rally on Tuesday 24 February, chanting slogans including 'woman, life, freedom', 'free political prisoners' and 'death to the dictator', according to a Hengaw video report.
Three Iran University of Art students, Pouyan Jamili, Sina Ghanimati and Kiarash Najafzadeh, including the top-ranked art candidate in the 2023 university entrance exam, were arrested and taken to an unknown location, Hengaw reported.
A family received the body of a protester who had been missing for about 50 days. The body bore gunshot wounds and blows from a cleaver.
On the first day of US and Israeli strikes, people chanted from their windows and some celebrated in the streets. The internet blackout was renewed, special forces were deployed, and footage showed security forces firing on celebrants.
Police fired live rounds at a family car near the Fifth Roundabout in Fardis, killing brothers Ahmadreza Feizi, 15, and Amirhossein Feizi, 19, from Asadabad, after they honked their horn in celebration of the death of Ali Khamenei, Hengaw reported. Hengaw's article gives 25 February; TIM records list 28 February.
Nahal Ahouqalandari, a young Lor woman, was shot dead when government forces opened fire on a vehicle near Keyo Square in Khorramabad on the evening of 28 February, following the announcement of Ali Khamenei's death, Hengaw reported.
Amir Shahidi, father of Mehrshad Shahidi, killed during the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' movement, was arrested in Arak on 5 March and his whereabouts were unknown six days later, Hengaw reported.
NetBlocks said Iran's internet had been almost entirely cut off for six full days, with connectivity at about 1% of normal, while authorities promoted their agenda through whitelisted services.
Iran Human Rights reported that Mani Rahmani, 17, from Takestan, arrested on 22 January, died in a coma from severe head, back and leg injuries sustained in detention.
People detained in the January protests in Mashhad, including several under 18, were being held for long periods in the overcrowded quarantine ward of Vakilabad prison with poor sanitation, limited medical care and insufficient food; families asked to post bail found no officials to process it, IranWire reported on 9 March.
Iran's police chief warned that anyone protesting in the streets would be treated as an 'enemy' and that forces had their 'fingers on the trigger'.
The IRGC threatened a crackdown bigger than the one in January if protests restarted.
The IRGC Intelligence Organisation said on 13 March that 'a harder blow than 18 Dey [8 January]' awaited those it called 'neo-ISIS', called protesters 'homeland-less' and pledged a 'round-the-clock fight' against them, Haalvsh reported.
Iran Human Rights reported that Navid Soltanpour, 44, from Kashmar, died within hours of being abducted by security forces.
People across Iran defied orders and celebrated Chaharshanbe Suri; footage showed security forces firing to disperse crowds in Tehran.
Iran hanged three men, including 19-year-old wrestler Saleh Mohammadi, convicted of killing two police officers during the protests. They were the first executions linked to the January protests.
Afsaneh Roozbehani and Behnoosh Darvishi, mother and sister of slain protester Behnam Darvishi, were violently arrested on 19 March while holding a memorial at his grave in Nahavand and taken to Noshijan prison in Malayer, Hengaw reported. A narrata documentary report also records the arrests.
A narrata documentary report says Esmail Shokri, father of Sepehr Shokri, 25, who was shot in the chest on Nabard Street on 8 January, was violently arrested at his son's grave at Behesht-e Zahra on 1 Farvardin 1405 (21 March) and released hours later after the family's efforts and media coverage. Agents had earlier attacked mourners at the burial and 40th-day ceremonies and threatened his mother. Credit: narrata.
Intelligence agents arrested five Kurds in Saqqez between 21 and 26 March over alleged use of Starlink, Hengaw reported.
Betoul Gerami, a justice-seeking mother from Gonabad, was discharged on 28 March before finishing treatment for injuries from beatings by Basij and IRGC forces during a raid, and moved to Gonabad Central Prison, Hengaw reported.
Abbas Yavari, 31, arrested at the January protests in Shiraz, was moved from Adel Abad prison to an unknown location on 26 March and his family was told of his death on 29 March. Officials called it suicide; a source told IHRNGO he died of torture aimed at forcing confessions to killing Basij agents.
Amnesty said Akbar (Shahrokh) Daneshvarkar and Mohammad Taghavi Sangdehi were executed on 30 March and Babak Alipour and Pouya Ghobadi on 31 March after being taken from Section 4 of Ghezel Hesar prison, and warned that seven protesters and dissidents were at imminent risk.
Iran hanged 18-year-old protester Amir Hossein Hatami, according to activists, in the latest wartime execution.
NPR reported that Iranians were leaving the country just to get internet access during the blackout.
Iran executed two men convicted of trying to storm a military facility and its armoury during the January protests.
NetBlocks said Iran's internet blackout had become the longest nationwide shutdown on record, Dawn reported.
State media reported the execution of Ali Fahim, 23, arrested at the 8 January protests in Tehran, the fourth defendant in his case hanged in five days; co-defendants Abolfazl Salehi Siavashani, Shahab Zohdi and Yaser Rajaifar were at imminent risk, IHRNGO said.
Kerman's police commander said a suspect accused of selling VPN services to more than 300 people through a network across several provinces had been arrested for facilitating 'communication with hostile networks'.
Monitors said Iran's internet blackout, renewed at the start of the war, had passed 1,000 hours and continued after the 8 April ceasefire.
Majid Nasiri, 29, from Jahrom, Shahab Dadkhah, 34, a Shiraz car mechanic, and an unidentified man were sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court for 'arson of a military base and murder of a special unit officer'; a source told IHRNGO that Dadkhah had an alibi and denied attending the protests.
NetBlocks said the nationwide blackout had lasted 48 days (1,128 hours), with economic losses estimated at about $1.8 billion using its COST methodology.
Sasan Pakravan, a Kurdish man from Ilam arrested in a violent raid on his family home on 27 January, was temporarily released from Ilam Central Prison on 17 April after posting 8 billion tomans bail; he has been charged with moharebeh and 'shooting', Hengaw reported.
Sabzevar's sports department, on judicial orders, revoked the gym licence of powerlifting coach Rouhollah Nasiri, uncle of Mojtaba Karabi who was shot in Tehran in January, and sealed his workplace, Iran International reported on 17 April. Nasiri had earlier been arrested after Karabi's 40th-day memorial in Sabzevar and spent 20 days in Torbat-e Heydarieh prison, accused of reciting Shahnameh verses against the Islamic Republic to incite unrest. The arrest is also recorded in a documentary account on narrata (credit: narrata, author 'Roudabeh').
NetBlocks said that on the 52nd day (1,224 hours) the general public remained cut off from international networks while authorities segregated users and gave selective access to favoured groups.
Mizan reported that January protester Amir Ali Mir Jafari was hanged at an undisclosed location on 21 April, accused of setting fire to the Gholhak Jame Mosque and attacking officers with a cold weapon; IHRNGO said at least 30 protesters had been sentenced to death.
A Shiraz criminal court acting in place of a Revolutionary Court sentenced Maryam Derisi of Kazerun to one year in prison and 74 lashes, and Fariba Hosseini of Shiraz to five years plus one year, over their arrests in the protests, Hengaw reported on 22 April.
Artin Salari, a 20-year-old Lor man from Nurabad Mamasani arrested in the protests, has been severely tortured in Nurabad Central Prison to force him to confess to setting fire to the town's courthouse, Hengaw reported on 23 April.
Mohammadreza Majidi Asl, Bita Hemati, Behrouz Zamaninejad and Kourosh Zamaninejad were sentenced to death by Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, the first January protesters convicted under the newly enacted espionage law, IHRNGO reported.
Tasnim reported that Erfan Kiani, arrested on 8 January in Isfahan, was hanged on 25 April after being convicted of moharebeh for 'drawing a machete' and blocking streets; IHRNGO said no earlier reports on his case had been published.
Maryam Hadavand, a January 2026 protest detainee held in Evin Prison, was sentenced to death in connection with the fire at the Seyyed al-Shohada mosque in Pakdasht, Hengaw reported. Hengaw said she was the second woman arrested in these protests to be sentenced to death.
The death sentences of Ehsan Hosseinipour Hesarloo, 19, Matin Mohammadi and Erfan Amiri, issued by Branch 26 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court over a fire at the Seyed al-Shohada mosque in Pakdasht, were upheld by the Supreme Court and sent to the enforcement branch, raising the risk of imminent execution, Hengaw reported on 26 April. They are accused of involvement in the killing of two Basij members.
Seyedeh Zeynab (Aban) Mousavi and her brother Seyed Hassan Mousavi, detained in the protests, appeared on 26 April before Mashhad's Revolutionary Court on a moharebeh charge, which carries the death penalty, after being accused under interrogation of throwing Molotov cocktails, Hengaw reported.
Hamid Haj Jafar Kashani, a former football referee and former political prisoner arrested in the protests, was informed on 27 April of a six-year sentence from Branch 23 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court, five years of it enforceable, Hengaw reported.
Branch 39 of the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Mohammad Abbasi, a January 2026 protest detainee held in Ghezel Hesar Prison, and the 25-year prison sentence of his daughter Fatemeh Abbasi, held in Evin's women's ward, HRANA reported.
Ebrahim Dowlatabadi, detained during the January protests in Mashhad, was sentenced to death for 'moharebeh', Hengaw reported. He was held in Ward 6-1 of Vakilabad Prison.
Sasan Azadvar, accused of throwing stones and breaking the windows of a police minibus, was executed at Isfahan Central Prison on 30 April, the same morning IHRNGO published a list of 44 protesters sentenced to death, including two women and three people under 18 at arrest; the judiciary chief had urged swift executions that day.
Mohammadreza Tabari, a 50-year-old carpenter from Bojnord living in Eslamshahr who handed himself in after attending protests in Tehran's Baharestan area on 8 January, was sentenced to death for moharebeh by Branch 26 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court, Hengaw reported on 30 April.
Majid Jamshidzadeh, an industrial design student arrested in the January protests, was sentenced to five years in prison by Branch 15 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court; the verdict was issued in March and reported by Hengaw on 1 May.
Branch 1 of the Shiraz Revolutionary Court sentenced Hamidreza Fathi, Abdolreza Fathi, Saeed Zarei Kordshouli and Hamidreza Sabetray to death for 'corruption on earth' over the alleged killing of a Basij member and damage to public property during the January protests in Marvdasht, after proceedings lacking fair-trial guarantees, Hengaw reported on 2 May.
The executions of Mehdi Rasouli and Mohammadreza Miri, linked to the death of a security officer on 8 January, and of Ebrahim Dolatabadinejad on charges of 'leading' actions that killed security forces, were reported in Mashhad.
Iran Human Rights listed Alireza Biranvand, arrested in Tehran on 5 May, as dying in detention from torture; the official cause given was poisoning.
Rasul Salehi, a Lor man arrested in the protests in Najafabad after publishing a video calling for detainees' release, was sentenced to nine years and three months in total, five years enforceable, Hengaw reported on 5 May.
Forces raided a planned birthday memorial for Abolfazl Paydar, killed in the Sabzevar protests, on 5 May, preventing it and violently arresting attendees including his mother Farzaneh Parvaneh, sister Amirhossein Paydar and uncle Saeed Parvaneh, who were taken to Torbat-e Heydarieh prison, Hengaw reported. (Hengaw gives the date as 'Monday, May 5'.)
Samira Bayat, 35, a restaurant cashier and her family's sole provider, arrested in Mashhad on 23 January, had been held in legal limbo for 106 days in Vakilabad prison's women's ward without access to a lawyer, Hengaw reported on 10 May.
Iran Human Rights reported that Taghi Salimi, 57, from Amol, arrested on 23 January, showed no vital signs on transfer from prison to a medical facility on 11 May.
Mahdieh Afaqhi and her husband Abolqasem Alimoradi, arrested in Mashhad during the January protests, remained in Vakilabad prison nearly four months later without trial, bail or any disclosed charge, Hengaw reported on 11 May.
Tahereh Dehghan, arrested in Chenaran about four months earlier, was sentenced to one year in prison on a charge of 'participation in protests' and was serving it in Vakilabad prison, Hengaw reported on 12 May.
Erfan Arabi, a 20-year-old student and internet freedom activist from Birjand who was held for three months after the January protests, was sentenced by Birjand's Revolutionary Court to eight years in total, five enforceable, Hengaw reported on 12 May.
Mohammad Abbasi, 55, convicted over the killing of police colonel Shahin Dehghani, was hanged at Ghezel Hesar Prison. His forced confession had been aired after his arrest and his daughter Fatemeh received 25 years. HRANA said he had no independent lawyer.
Maryam Nouri, arrested in Mashhad on 14 January days after her husband Ashkan Torabzadeh was shot dead by government forces in his car on 9 January, remained in legal limbo in Vakilabad prison nearly four months later, Hengaw reported on 14 May.
Samira (Fatemeh) Rezvanifar, arrested during the Mashhad protests on 17 January, had spent 117 days in Vakilabad prison without a court session, Hengaw reported on 14 May.
Zahra Mousavi, a 21-year-old Iranian-Afghan resident of Fariman detained in the January protests, was sentenced by Mashhad's Revolutionary Court to ten years and six months, four years enforceable, on charges including 'forming a group', Hengaw reported on 14 May.
Malard's police chief announced the arrest of two people in connection with the 2026 protests, claiming they had a role in the killing of a police officer, HRANA reported. Mohammad Abbasi had already been executed in the same case.
The European Parliament adopted a new resolution on Iran calling on the EU to widen targeted sanctions, including entry bans and asset freezes, on officials and bodies involved in suppressing protests and violating rights, and stressing continued support for international fact-finding and documentation, Haalvsh reported.
The Supreme Court overturned the death sentences of Mohammadreza Majidi-Asl and Bita Hemmati, a young Tehran couple detained in the January 2026 protests, Hengaw and HRANA reported. They had been sentenced to death in a joint case with two others.
Abbas Akbari Feizabadi, arrested over the January protests and accused of attacking a county government building, was executed. Iran Human Rights said he was the 15th protester executed since 19 March.
After President Pezeshkian ordered an end to the blackout on 25 May, Iran partially restored international internet access following a record months-long shutdown.
Nima Arban, a 17-year-old detained in Naein during the January 2026 protests, remained in legal limbo at Isfahan's juvenile detention centre after more than four months, Hengaw reported. The execution of his co-defendant raised fears for him.
Brothers Meysam and Mojtaba Veisi, who were wanted by security forces in connection with the 2026 protests, were shot dead by IRGC Intelligence agents in a village in Dalahu County on the morning of 28 May (7 Khordad), HRANA reported. Each was the father of one child.
Kurdish Yarsani activists Sajjad Veisi, 30, and his cousin Shayan Veisi, held in Kermanshah's Dizelabad prison since the January protests, had their case referred to the Revolutionary Court on a moharebeh charge based on an intelligence dossier and confessions obtained under torture, Hengaw reported on 29 May.
Haidar Nekousirat, arrested in the January protests in Mashhad, was sentenced to two years and was serving it in Vakilabad prison while being denied specialised care despite kidney failure and risk of complete blindness, Hengaw reported on 30 May.
Mohammadamin Shamsi, 29, Amir Amraei, 23, and Kamyar Amraei, 22, Kurdish residents of Karaj originally from Dareh Shahr, were each sentenced by Karaj's Revolutionary Court to three years and one month over the January protests; the verdict was delivered in Qezel Hesar prison, Hengaw reported on 31 May.
Branch 15 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court under Judge Abolghasem Salavati sentenced Ashkan Maleki and Mehrdad Mohammadinia of Qorveh and Arman Marefati, 38, of Saqqez to death for moharebeh in a joint case linked to the January protests, Hengaw reported on 31 May.
Ashkan Maleki and Mehrdad Mohammadinia, Kurdish protesters from Qorveh, were executed at Ghezel Hesar Prison without notice to their families. They had been convicted over the burning of a mosque and seminary in Tehran.
Benyamin Naghdi, 26, an MMA fighter and kickboxer arrested at a Shiraz protest on 3 January whose coerced confession was aired the next day, was sentenced to death for efsad-fil-arz by Branch 1 of the Shiraz Revolutionary Court, IHRNGO reported citing Emtedad.
Hossein Sharifi Hosseinabadi, 24, arrested in Sabzevar on 6 February in connection with the protests, remained in legal limbo in Torbat-e Heydarieh prison nearly four months later, Hengaw reported on 1 June.
Branch 14 of the Khuzestan Court of Appeals upheld the prison sentences of Lor protesters Esmaeil Sheikhinia, Saeid Maqsoudi and Mahmoud Talkhabi, who are serving them in Sheiban prison, Hengaw reported on 2 June.
Iran Human Rights reported that Fathollah Avari, 42, arrested over the Hamadan protests, had been executed at Hamadan Central Prison after being convicted of killing a police officer on 8 January. State TV had aired his self-incriminating statements.
Maryam Babajani, arrested in Izeh in late January and later freed on 10 billion toman bail, was sentenced by Branch 1 of the Ahvaz Revolutionary Court to 32 years, six months and two days, 20 years enforceable, with the verdict invoking the law on intensified punishment for espionage, Hengaw reported on 3 June.
Hamid Rizaneh, 19, and Danyal Amini, 18, arrested in the January protests in Isfahan, remained in detention without a final ruling nearly five months later, with concern growing after state TV broadcast their forced confessions, Hengaw reported on 4 June.
Homaira Sharifi, an Afghan national detained in the January protests and held in Evin's women's ward, was notified of a five-year prison sentence amid deteriorating physical and mental health and lack of adequate medical care, Hengaw reported on 4 June.
Ali Kamali, a resident of Malaysia arrested in the January protests, was sentenced to death for moharebeh by Branch 26 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court after a mid-May trial; his case is before the Supreme Court, Hengaw reported on 5 June.
Mina Kouchaki and Samira Kouchaki, sisters and mothers detained in the January protests, were each sentenced to five years by a Tehran Revolutionary Court and are held in Evin, Hengaw reported on 6 June.
After Mehrdad Mohammadinia's body was returned to his home village, security bodies forced the funeral to be held in silence. A day after the burial, residents of Qeslan held a memorial and released four doves in his memory, Hengaw reported. His death notices had been taken down across Qorveh.
Shaqayeq Makvandi, a Lor woman from Izeh arrested in the January protests, was sentenced by Izeh's Revolutionary Court to two years and one day for 'disrupting public order'; her lawyer has appealed, Hengaw reported on 7 June.
Kaveh Arabian, Ali Daneshparvar and Esmail Ramezanpour, arrested over the January protests in Yazd, were sentenced to death for moharebeh by Branch 1 of the Yazd Revolutionary Court, IHRNGO reported in early June (the article's dateline reads 8 January).
Ghazaleh Raiat, a Baha'i woman arrested at her workplace in Mashhad on 15 January during the protests, was sentenced at first instance to 22 months by Mashhad's Revolutionary Court, Hengaw reported on 9 June; the case is under appeal.
Arman Soleimani, Mansour Keybandarian Sabet and Rahim Pourbodaghi, Lor Bakhtiari men held in Sheiban prison since the January protests, were sentenced by Branch 18 of the Khuzestan Court of Appeals to a combined six years and one day, Hengaw reported on 9 June.
Alireza Peyghambari, 26, a January 2026 protest detainee held in Greater Tehran Prison, was sentenced to death for 'moharebeh' by Branch 23 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court, HRANA reported. His case went to Branch 9 of the Supreme Court.
IHRNGO published an English translation of the 'Law on Intensifying the Punishment for Espionage and Cooperation with the Zionist Regime and Hostile States', saying it was increasingly used to hand down death sentences and fast-track the execution of protesters.
Branch 11 of the Hamedan Court of Appeals upheld a sentence of four years, one month and 17 days against Hossein Bahadori, prosecuted over the January protests, Hengaw reported on 10 June.
Pouria Amini, a January protest detainee from Gonabad, was sentenced by Gonabad's Revolutionary Court to eight years in total, Hengaw reported on 12 June.
The Khuzestan Court of Appeals upheld two years and one day in prison for 'disrupting public order' against Ahmad Lajam Owrak, a Lor Bakhtiari man arrested in the January protests in Izeh, Hengaw reported on 12 June.
The Tehran Province Court of Appeals upheld the two-year sentence of Ali Taherikia, a master's student in directing at the University of Tehran's Faculty of Fine Arts arrested in the January protests, Hengaw reported on 13 June.
Raheleh Moeini, 23, a biomedical engineering student at the Polytechnic University of Milan detained during the January protests, was sentenced by a Revolutionary Court on 13 June to two years and six months in prison plus a travel ban; she is held in Qarchak, Hengaw reported.
Peyman Ganji, 33, a January 2026 protest detainee, was sentenced to death for 'moharebeh' by Branch 26 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court, HRANA reported. Hengaw also reported that Ali Fattah and Mohammad Naghizadeh were moved to solitary cells in Ghezel Hesar after the Supreme Court upheld their death sentences.
Javad Zamani and Abolfazl Saedi, detained over the 8 January protests in Shahroud, were executed in Semnan province on charges including moharebeh and arson.
Khalil Rasouli, a Kurdish man from Bojnord wounded and arrested in the January protests, was sentenced to eight years in prison, 80 lashes and two years of internal exile, and was serving it in Vakilabad prison despite a severe gunshot wound, Hengaw reported on 18 June.
Zahedan prosecutor Mehdi Shamsabadi announced that sentences had been issued for 111 people detained over the 2025-26 nationwide protests in Sistan and Baluchestan, some already enforced, without giving the charges or the length of the sentences, Haalvsh reported.
Around 30 people held in Saveh Central Prison over the January protests began a coordinated hunger strike across several wards on 26 June in protest at harsh sentences issued in expedited proceedings, Hengaw reported.
Arya Nourani, a Kurdish teacher detained during the January protests in Maneh and Samalqan County, was sentenced to 14 months in prison by a verdict that did not state the charges, Hengaw reported on 30 June.
Siavash Alak, a 19-year-old Kurdish man, was repeatedly stabbed by a Basij member during an attack by a group of Basij members in Mahabad on 1 July and died; three other civilians were wounded. Protesters gathered outside Imam Khomeini hospital and were dispersed violently, most shops closed in a general strike on 2 July, and his funeral drew a large crowd chanting slogans, Hengaw reported.
Branch 47 of the Isfahan Court of Appeals on 2 July upheld a 21-year sentence and a two-year ban on living in Isfahan province against Mohammad Abedraftar, 29, of Shahin Shahr, arrested in the January protests, Hengaw reported.
An appeals court reduced the five-year sentence of Parnian (Fatemeh) Hashempour, detained in the protests and held in Evin's women's ward, to two years for 'assembly and collusion', Hengaw reported on 5 July.
Nima Shiri, 21, a Kurdish man from Ashkhaneh detained in the January protests, was sentenced by the Ashkhaneh criminal court to one year in prison, one year of exile in Zahedan and 74 lashes, Hengaw reported on 5 July.
Vahid Khan Sanami, detained over the January protests and held in Greater Tehran Penitentiary, was sentenced to death for moharebeh by Branch 15 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court under Judge Abolghasem Salavati, Hengaw reported on 5 July.
Neda Dadejani, a Kurdish puppeteer and theatre artist from Qorveh arrested in the January protests, was sentenced to three years in prison, two enforceable, and two years of internal exile in Nikshahr, Hengaw reported on 6 July.
Kamal Khanbabai, 32, a father of one detained during the January protests, was sentenced to death for moharebeh by Branch 1 of Qazvin's Revolutionary Court; the case is before the Supreme Court on appeal, Hengaw reported on 6 July.
Branch 15 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court, headed by Judge Abolqasem Salavati, sentenced Mehdi Nazer and his fiancée Mahnaz Chardoli to death and 10 years in prison, and Mehdi Nazer's sister Atefeh Nazer to 10 years. The three were arrested in Tehran on 11 January 2026. Hengaw also reported the sentences on 20 July.
Karim Masoudi, Behzad Samadzadeh, Farshad Souri, Gholamreza Abdollahzadeh and Sardar Pourmirzaei, Kurdish men from Urmia detained in the January protests, were sentenced to prison terms by Urmia's Revolutionary Court, Hengaw reported on 7 July.
Filmmaker Davoud Abbasi Qeshlaqi, 40, arrested in the January protests, was sentenced by Branch 2 of Karaj's Revolutionary Court to 20 months in total, Hengaw reported on 13 July.
Prisoners in Unit 2 of Karaj's Ghezel Hesar Prison began a strike and sit-in on Monday 13 July, refusing prison food, in protest at executions and the transfer of six death-row prisoners to solitary, HRANA reported. HRANA published videos from the following days of the protest.
Amirali Ghajari, a 17-year-old Turk detained in connection with the January protests, was sentenced by Qazvin's Revolutionary Court to three years in prison and eight months of compulsory municipal service, Hengaw reported on 14 July.
Shadi (Khadijeh) Shadman, detained during the January protests and held in Evin's women's ward, was sentenced to five years by Branch 26 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court under Judge Iman Afshari, Hengaw reported on 14 July.
Brothers Rasoul and Saman Doregard, detained during the January protests in Tehran, were sentenced to a combined 12 years, including 10 years for 22-year-old Saman from Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court, Hengaw reported on 14 July.
Mojtaba Nodehi, a Kurdish man from Bojnord detained in the January protests, was sentenced to three years' suspended imprisonment, 74 lashes and a 100 million toman fine, Hengaw reported on 14 July.
Mohammad Amini Dehaghani, detained over the protests in Dehaqan, was executed. State media accused him of blocking roads and setting fire to the governor's office.
Yaser Reyhani, 36, a Kurdish man from Bojnord arrested in the January protests, was sentenced to two years and three months in prison, 80 lashes and a fine, Hengaw reported on 17 July.
Security officials and Isfahan Central Prison moved about thirty political prisoners, including 12 people sentenced to death in the 'Alikhani Square' case, to an unknown location, raising fears of imminent executions, Hengaw reported.
Erfan Esfandiari, reportedly 18, and Afghan national Gol Mohammad Mohammadi, 23, were executed at Isfahan Central Prison over the 8 January protests at Alikhani Square.
Mojtaba Dehbandi, 23, and Kianush Hamzezadeh-Kazerouni, 27, were sentenced to death by Branch One of the Shiraz Revolutionary Court on charges including moharebeh and 'harbouring protesters'; IHRNGO said the case concerned medical help they gave to injured protesters.
Hamzeh Ahmadi Taraqi, 28, a Kurdish man from Bojnord arrested in the January protests and denied independent counsel, was sentenced in two cases to five years and seven months in prison, 148 lashes and one year of exile to Zahak, Hengaw reported on 20 July.
Branch 36 of the Tehran Court of Appeals upheld a 10-year sentence against Paria Dadgarsafa, arrested in the January protests, suspending four years, Hengaw reported on 20 July.
Iran Human Rights said more than 70 protesters arrested over the January protests faced execution in Isfahan Central Prison, 26 of them in pre-execution cells. Families were pressured not to publicise the cases.
Sina Sotoudeh, 31, a Ramsar resident and father of a five-year-old detained in the January protests, was sentenced to eight years by the Tonekabon Revolutionary Court and summoned to begin serving it, Hengaw reported on 21 July.
Mehdi Khanaki, sentenced to death over the January protests in Karaj, was executed. Iran Human Rights reported allegations of torture and an unfair Revolutionary Court trial.
Ahad Shokouhian, a 38-year-old worker arrested during the January protests in Pakdasht, was sentenced to death three times by Branch 26 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court under Judge Iman Afshari, Hengaw reported on 23 July.
Afshar Shahahmadi, Iman Shafaei and Sadraddin Ahmadzadeh, Afghan nationals living in Isfahan who were arrested in the January protests, were sentenced to death by Isfahan's Revolutionary Court, Hengaw reported on 23 July.
The European Union sanctioned Iranian judges over human rights violations and a leader of a cyber group that supported the repression of information.
Branch 5 of Isfahan's Revolutionary Court sentenced Mehnam Navab Safavi, a 22-year-old rapper detained during the January protests, to death for moharebeh, Hengaw reported on 24 July.
Iran's Supreme Court overturned the death sentences imposed by Branch 26 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court on Ali Fattah (Kamali), Behrouz Zamaninezhad and his son Kourosh Zamaninezhad over the January protests, Hengaw reported on 24 July.
Cousins Abolfazl Rahbar, 23, and Omid Rahbar, 24, held in Qezel Hesar prison since the January protests, were sentenced by Tehran's Revolutionary Court to 20 and 26 years respectively, Hengaw reported on 25 July.
Ribwar Marabi, 26, a Kurdish man from Kamyaran arrested in the January protests in Tehran, was detained on 25 July after answering a summons, to serve six years after an appeals court cut his 10-year sentence, Hengaw reported.
Naeim Lashkari, 25, from Bijar, held in Greater Tehran Penitentiary, was sentenced to five years by Branch 28 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court for taking part in the January protests, Hengaw reported on 26 July.
Saeid Baghcheqi, 16, and Farhad Baghcheqi, Kurdish residents of Bojnord, were sentenced in separate protest-related cases to a combined five years and four months in prison, with Farhad also given 74 lashes, Hengaw reported on 26 July.
Marziyeh Mashhadi, held in Vakilabad prison since the January protests, was sentenced to seven years and one day, Hengaw reported on 26 July.
Adel Rais Qanavati, a Kurdish man arrested in the January protests who spent two months in detention, was sentenced to nine months by the Ashkhaneh criminal court, with another case pending, Hengaw reported on 27 July.
Hadiseh Morvaridi, 24, from Fariman, held in Vakilabad prison since the January protests, was sentenced to three years in two cases, Hengaw reported on 27 July.
Amirhossein Fallahi, 19, from Kuhdasht, first sentenced to five years and exile to Jask over the January protests, had the term reduced to 18 months, Hengaw reported on 27 July.
Three people arrested in the January protests in Bojnord, two Kurds and one Turk including Erfan Sajjadi, 20, sentenced in absentia, received a combined seven years and two months in prison and 200 million tomans in fines, Hengaw reported on 27 July.
Soroush Karami, 18, shot dead by security forces in Kermanshah on 8 January, was identified after an exhumation on 27 July showed his body had been handed to the family of another victim, Amirali Heydari, and buried in Sarabeleh under that name; Heydari's own body had lain in an unmarked grave, Hengaw reported.
Abolfazl Sepahi Badjani, 25, and Amirhossein Safari Hosseinabadi, 28, were publicly hanged in Alikhani Square. A crowd that gathered to stop the executions was confronted by security forces and several people were arrested. Iran Human Rights called them the first public executions recorded in 2026.
Kaveh Arabian, a 32-year-old father whose death sentence the Supreme Court had upheld, was moved from Yazd Central Prison to an unknown location on 28 July, a day after a family visit; a source said his parents had been threatened to stay silent, IHRNGO reported.
IHRNGO reported that Alireza Sepahi Badjani and Ghaem Hosseini had also been scheduled to hang on 28 July; Hosseini's execution was halted and Sepahi Badjani was rushed to hospital after a heart attack shortly before the public hanging. Four other co-defendants remained at imminent risk.
After the public hangings in Isfahan, Amnesty said at least 60 others, including three arrested as children, were at risk of execution, and that since internet access returned on 26 May it had recorded at least 15 new death sentences and 13 upheld by the Supreme Court across nine provinces.
The strike by Unit 2 prisoners at Karaj's Ghezel Hesar Prison ended on Tuesday 28 July, after fifteen days, following a promise by prison officials to halt executions, HRANA reported.
Saeed Mohammadyari, 36, an athlete from Kuhdasht detained in the January protests, was sentenced by Branch 1 of Khorramabad's Revolutionary Court to eight years in prison, internal exile and other restrictions, Hengaw reported on 29 July.
Amirmehdi Naeimifar, 18, Mehdi Rostami, 25, Seyed Alireza Seyedi, 26, and Yasin Sarfaraz, a 17-year-old member of the national boxing team, Kurdish protesters arrested in Bojnord and Ashkhaneh, were sentenced to a combined 10 years, flogging and a fine, Hengaw reported on 29 July.
Branch 41 of the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Shiraz protester Benyamin Naghdi; his lawyer said he would apply for a retrial, IHRNGO reported citing Emtedad.
Behrouz Izanlou, 43, a Kurdish man, and his 16-year-old daughter Zeinab, arrested in the January protests, were sentenced by a Bojnord criminal court to a combined five years, three months and 15 days in prison, 80 lashes and an 80 million toman fine, Hengaw reported on 30 July.
Arian Valipour, a January 2026 protest detainee, has been sentenced to death by Branch 23 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court on charges of 'destroying public property' and 'collaboration with Israel', and to five years for 'assembly and collusion', HRANA reported. His case is under Supreme Court review.
Arvin Kheirkhahan, a 20-year-old arrested during the January protests, was executed at dawn on 1 August in Shahroud Central Prison without prior notice to his family, and authorities refused to release his body immediately, Hengaw reported.
Mahmoud Shaddel, 30, a motocross champion from Ashkhaneh, and Mostafa Alipour, Kurdish men arrested in the January protests, were sentenced to a combined seven years, two months and one day, and 74 lashes, Hengaw reported on 1 August.
Mehdi Khosravi, 19, of Karaj, arrested in the January protests, was sentenced by Karaj's Revolutionary Court to five years for 'disrupting public order' and 'damaging public property', Hengaw reported on 2 August.
Mahshad Keshani, a university student previously detained in the January protests, was rearrested when four plainclothes agents raided her family home in Isfahan at about 7am on 3 August and taken to an unknown location, Hengaw reported.
Amirmohammad Hajari, 24, a Kurdish man from Ashkhaneh arrested in the January protests, was sentenced by Branch 2 of Bojnord's Revolutionary Court to three years, six months and one day, Hengaw reported on 4 August.
Mehdi (Sikan) Roshani, from Malekshahi and detained during the January protests, was sentenced to death for 'moharebeh' by Ilam's Revolutionary Court, HRANA reported. He is accused of killing a police officer.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said at least 56 people had been executed on national-security charges since 19 March, at least 27 of them prosecuted in connection with the protests earlier in the year, and that more than 100 others faced execution on similar charges; he cited public executions, reports of confessions under torture, and 12 defendants sentenced to death in a single three-hour closed hearing, Haalvsh reported.
At least 25 Turks from Ardabil arrested in the January protests were sentenced by Revolutionary and Criminal Courts to a combined 49 years and three months in prison, Hengaw reported on 7 August. On 8 August Hengaw added that at least 29 others remained in Ardabil Central Prison without trial.
Shahryar Mohammadi Berimanlou, a 20-year-old Kurdish wrestler arrested in the January protests in Bojnord, was sentenced to two years by the North Khorasan Court of Appeals, a ruling communicated in July, Hengaw reported on 8 August.
Ali Rezaei, 28, from Amol, arrested in the January protests, was sentenced in two cases by Amol's Revolutionary Court to three years and 10 months plus a one-year suspended term, Hengaw reported on 9 August.
Homa Teymouri and her husband Yaser Azadeh, arrested in the January protests, were sentenced to a combined 10 years, Teymouri by Branch 15 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court under Judge Salavati, Hengaw reported on 12 August.
Mehdi Roshani, a protester detained in Ilam, was formally charged with moharebeh and efsad-fil-arz, capital offences; a source quoting his lawyer told IHRNGO there were no murder or assault charges and he denied the accusations.
Sepehr Amirzadeh, a 23-year-old medical student in Isfahan and musician from Ramhormoz detained in the January protests, was sentenced to death for moharebeh and is held in Dastgerd prison, Hengaw reported on 15 August.
Seyed Javad Mousavi, arrested in the January protests, was taken into custody on 15 August after being summoned by Birjand's sentence enforcement office, to serve a five-year sentence, Hengaw reported.
Shahram Sadeghi, accused of driving into security forces during the 8 January protests in Karaj, was executed at Ghezel Hesar Prison. Iran Human Rights called his televised statements torture-tainted.
Mohammadreza Balhour of Sarayan, arrested in the January protests, was sentenced to 12 years by Sarayan's Revolutionary Court and has appealed, Hengaw reported on 16 August.
Javad Safari, 59, a retired teacher held in Zanjan prison, and his wife Fatemeh Safari, detained during the January protests, were sentenced to a combined seven years and seven months, with Javad also fined, Hengaw reported on 16 August.
Branch 9 of the Supreme Court overturned the death sentences of Shahab Zohdi, Abolfazl Salehi Siavashani and Yaser Rajaeifar, January 2026 protest detainees held in Ghezel Hesar, and sent the case back to Tehran's Revolutionary Court for retrial, HRANA reported. Judge Abolqasem Salavati had sentenced them to death.
Zahra Rabbani, an 18-year-old Kurdish woman from Bojnord who was 17 when arrested in the January protests, was sentenced by a Bojnord criminal court to 15 months and two days in prison and a fine, Hengaw reported on 19 August.
Ghaem (Arian) Hosseini, 21, an Afghan national, was executed at Isfahan Central Prison, the fifth defendant executed in the Alikhani Square case.
Pouria Hosseinimofrad, 23, was sentenced to death by Branch 5 of Mashhad's Revolutionary Court over acts including breaking a bus-stop window and setting shrubs alight during a protest, and the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Rasul Rezaei, 28, from Fariman; both are held in Vakilabad prison, Hengaw reported on 21 August.
Eiman Kazemi, a Kurdish man from Bojnord detained in the January protests, was sentenced to three months in prison and 74 lashes, suspended for five years, for 'disrupting public order', Hengaw reported on 22 August.
Majid Adineh, arrested in Karaj on the evening of 9 January, was executed at Karaj Central Prison. Iran Human Rights said he was the 29th protester executed over the protests since 19 March.
Saman Ghaderi, 37, a Kurdish man from Urmia detained in the January protests, was informed on 25 August of a 14-year sentence from Branch 26 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court: 11 years for 'acting against national security' and three for 'insulting the sacred', Hengaw reported.
Davoud Mostofi, a Lor resident of Likak, was arrested after attending a memorial and birthday gathering for Habib Khoubipour, who was killed in the January protests, and was taken to Dehdasht prison, Hengaw reported on 25 August.
Amirmohammad Mojallal Choubari, a 2026 protest detainee held in Ghezel Hesar, was sentenced to death, HRANA reported. His charges included 'attempted murder by trying to run over officers'. Hengaw said he is from Choubar in Gilan and lived in Shahr-e Rey.
Hossein Nazari, 25, a January 2026 protest detainee in Mashhad's Vakilabad Prison, was sentenced to death by Branch 1 of Mashhad's Revolutionary Court on charges of 'links with hostile states' and 'assembly and collusion', HRANA reported. The sentence had been issued in July.
Mohammad Ebrahimi, an art graduate held in Greater Tehran Penitentiary since the January protests, was sentenced to 20 years by Branch 26 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court, Hengaw reported on 27 August.
Mehdi Savarolia, held in Karaj Central Prison since the January protests, was sentenced by Branch 2 of Karaj's Revolutionary Court to six years plus additional penalties, Hengaw reported on 27 August.
Leila Abolhasani, 43, a January protest detainee held in Isfahan's Dolatabad Prison, has been sentenced to death for 'moharebeh' by Branch 5 of Isfahan's Revolutionary Court, HRANA reported. Her appeal went to the Supreme Court.
Keyvan Bana, 21, from Khaf, a January protest detainee previously freed on bail, was arrested on 30 August after being summoned to the sentence enforcement branch and taken to Torbat-e Heydarieh prison to serve 10 years and one day, Hengaw reported.
Rights groups said two women had been sentenced to death over the 2026 protests.
Branch 1 of Isfahan's Revolutionary Court sentenced 10 defendants in the 'Isfahan Shohada Square' case, including one woman, to death and 11 years each: Taraneh Rahimi, Navid Elyasi, Abolfazl Dadgostar, Mehdi Mansouri, Ahmadreza Saeidi, Mehrdad Boueri, Mohammad Mehdi Asadi, Armin Gholami, Parsa Jafari and Mehdi Jafari (Khosravi). Six others received a combined 146 years, Hengaw reported on 31 August.
The Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Ali-Asghar (Alireza) Peyghambari, 26, a January 2026 protest detainee, and he was moved from Greater Tehran Prison to Ghezel Hesar, HRANA reported.
Omid Yousefi, a 35-year-old wrestler from Karaj identified through surveillance footage of protests in Gohardasht on 8 and 9 January and arrested on 13 January, was sentenced to four years on charges including possession of a weapon and leading protests, Hengaw reported on 1 September.
Hazhir Yaghoubi, a Kurdish shopkeeper in Qorveh arrested for joining a local business strike and demonstrations in January, was sentenced by a criminal court to one year in prison and 31 lashes, Hengaw reported on 2 September.
Nozhat Mirrazi, known as 'Mama Nozhat', whose son Ali Shoush was killed in 2022 and son Emad Shoush was shot dead in Lahijan on 8 January 2026, was arrested by security forces on 4 September and taken to an undisclosed location, a day after posting a video marking Emad's approaching birthday, Hengaw reported.
The Guardian reported that twin sisters Taraneh and Romina Rahimi, 20, detained after the Isfahan protests, were sentenced: Taraneh to death and Romina to 25 years. Relatives said they were beaten and tortured.
Ten people arrested in Sabzevar in January, including 17-year-old Nazanin-Zahra Mousavi and two women, were sentenced to a combined 15 years of suspended prison terms and 1.5 billion tomans in fines and ordered to attend Friday prayers for two months and ideological classes for three months; the ruling was upheld on appeal, Hengaw reported on 6 September.
Iran International reported that Aida Heydari, fiancée of Abolfazl Soleimani Alamouti who was killed in Zibashahr on 9 January, died by suicide on 3 September, and that Danial Karimi, father of Amir-Mohammad Karimi killed in Marvdasht, died by suicide on 6 September.
Human Rights Watch and the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center said at least 59 men were executed on politically motivated national-security charges between 18 March and the end of August, including at least 29 arrested over the December–January protests; in 16 of those 29 cases the capital charges involved no allegation of killing.
Alireza Sepahi Badjani, 25, who survived a scheduled public hanging after a heart attack, was moved to solitary confinement in Isfahan (Dastgerd) Central Prison, where death-row prisoners are typically taken before execution, IHRNGO reported citing activist Mehdi Mahmoudian. Five co-defendants had been executed since 19 July.
Hossein Rasoulinasab, detained in Shandiz during the January 2026 protests, was sentenced to death by Mashhad's Revolutionary Court for 'moharebeh', including alleged involvement in damaging public property and setting religious sites on fire, HRANA reported. He is held in Vakilabad Prison.
IHRNGO identified at least 100 January protesters, including at least five children and five women, at risk of the death penalty across 13 provinces, and said 31 protesters (29 from the January protests) had been executed since 18 March.
Najmeh Amini, 23, an accounting student arrested at Mashhad's Ferdowsi shopping centre during the protests on 31 January, was sentenced on 16 September to death by Mashhad Criminal Court for 'insulting the Prophet' and to 12 years, six months and one day by the Revolutionary Court; she then released an audio message from Vakilabad prison asking for a fair trial, Hengaw reported.
A UN mission said there were grounds to believe the Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity in suppressing the 2025–2026 protests.
Iran Human Rights published 'The January 2026 Protest Killings in Iran', naming 4,219 people killed, including at least 420 women and 281 children, with 3,356 of the dated deaths on 8 and 9 January. It documented snipers, shooting from behind, hospital raids, 'bullet money' and pressure on families. It said over 100 people were on death row and at least 29 executed.
The Supreme Court overturned the death sentences of Mehdi Nazer and Mahnaz Chardoli, January 2026 protest detainees, HRANA reported. Branch 15 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court under Judge Salavati had sentenced them to death.
The judiciary seized 2,191 bank accounts and 39 vehicles belonging to critics of the government.
Dozens of students protested at Allameh Tabataba'i University, demanding the release of imprisoned classmates.
Mahboubeh Shabani, 33, arrested in Mashhad on 2 February and sentenced to death by Branch One of the Mashhad Revolutionary Court under the new espionage law for what IHRNGO said was helping injured protesters, was moved to solitary confinement at Vakilabad prison on 28 September, two days after learning of her sentence.
Morteza Yousefzadeh, held in Greater Tehran Penitentiary since the January protests, was sentenced to 10 years by Branch 29 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court, Hengaw reported on 29 September.
Mona Mahmoudian, 32, the wife of Ebrahim Mostafapour who was killed in the January protests and mother of a 12-year-old, was severely beaten and arrested by IRGC Intelligence at her workplace in Babol on Tuesday 29 September and taken to an unknown location, Hengaw reported.
Amir Farnian, 23, whose father Majid Farnian was killed in the January protests, was arrested in a raid on his workplace in Kelardasht on 29 September and taken to an unknown location, Hengaw reported.
Iran executed two men convicted of a role in killing four security force members during the protests in Mashhad.
Alireza Rashidi, a 16-year-old Kurdish boy from Ashkhaneh, was arrested on 30 September after reporting to security authorities, nearly nine months after the January protests, having been identified in video footage of the demonstrations, Hengaw reported.
Khosrow Mohammadnia, Masoud Toushmalani and Sirwan Shabani, Kurdish men from Kermanshah held in Qezel Hesar, were sentenced to death by Branch 23 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court over the January protests, Hengaw reported on 1 October.
Actress Elnaz Shakerdoost was sentenced to one year in prison for criticising the crackdown.
Forty-six countries signed a joint statement condemning Iran's continued use of the death penalty, especially against people detained over the January protests, and called for an immediate halt to executions, HRANA reported.
The judiciary announced the execution of Siavash Jamshidi Kheirabadi, arrested during January's protests in Shahrekord and sentenced for allegedly firing at security forces. No details of his trial had been made public.
Mehdi Nami, a Tehran resident arrested in the January protests and held in Qezel Hesar, was sentenced to death by Branch 23 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court for 'operational activities in support of hostile states', Hengaw reported on 3 October.
Alireza Sepahi Badjani and Alireza Raisi Hassan Hendouyi, sentenced in the Alikhani Square case, were executed in Isfahan Central Prison, bringing executions in that case to seven since 19 July. IHRNGO counted at least 36 protesters executed since 19 March, 34 of them over the January protests. A day earlier Sepahi's lawyer said the family had been summoned for a last visit.
Bojnurd Revolutionary Court sentenced Hadi Abbasian, a protester from Shirvan, to death; the sentence was served on him in Shirvan prison on 5 October (13 Mehr), Iran International reported. Since his arrest on 13 May he has been denied family visits and a lawyer of his choice. The office of Prince Reza Pahlavi published an audio message from him.
Borzou Rezaei, a Kurdish man from Kermanshah arrested in the January protests and held in Greater Tehran Penitentiary, was sentenced to death by Branch 23 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court, Hengaw reported on 6 October.
The death sentence of Omid Goudarzvand Chegini, 37, detained in Qazvin during the January 2026 protests, was upheld on appeal, Hengaw reported. He is held in Qazvin's Choubindar Prison and is at risk of execution.
Mohsen Babaeian, arrested in the January protests and held in Greater Tehran Penitentiary, was sentenced to death for moharebeh by Branch 26 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court under Judge Iman Afshari, Hengaw reported on 7 October.
Erfan Nabian (legal name Erfan Haj-Bayani Dehghani), a 26-year-old Isfahan protester sentenced to death after his arrest in the January protests, told Iran International he was tortured, forced to confess and subjected to a mock execution. He said interrogators kept a noose around his neck for about 10 minutes while questioning him about the Alikhani Square case.
IHRNGO said at least 617 people had been executed in Iran in 2026, more than two a day, with a sharp surge in national-security executions including protesters, while about 87% were for ordinary crimes.
Human rights lawyer Amirsalar Davoudi was arrested on 11 October after reporting on the execution of his client Alireza Sepahi; the head of the Isfahan judiciary accused him of publishing 'false' information and threatened prosecution under the espionage law, IHRNGO reported.
Reza Shoja Mazraji, a teacher and teachers' union activist arrested in the January protests, was sentenced in absentia by Branch 4 of Mashhad's Revolutionary Court to four years, one month and 17 days, Hengaw reported on 11 October.
Amnesty condemned the executions of Ali Hemmati Sistanian, Majid Nikandish, Siavash Jamshidi Kheirabadi, Alireza Raisi and Alireza Sepahi between 30 September and 5 October after torture-tainted trials, citing IHRNGO that Nikandish had been suspended by his arms, leaving him with a dislocated shoulder and broken jaw.
The judiciary announced the execution of Ali-Sina Mostafavi, a musician and mountaineer. It had accused him of two shootings in Kerman in April and May 2026 and of sending images and videos to Persian-language media abroad, and said he had also taken part in the January protests. Human rights media reported that forced confessions were taken from him.
Abolfazl Damenjani, arrested in the January protests, was sentenced by Branch 5 of Mashhad's Revolutionary Court to 15 years in total (eight enforceable) for 'assembly and collusion', 'propaganda against the state' and 'acting against national security', Hengaw reported on 16 October.
Peyman Ghadiri, 45, a January protester, died after about nine months in a coma, Iran International reported on 16 October. Agents had entered his home in Qarchak on the evening of 9 January and shot him in the head at close range; they also arrested his son that night to pressure the family into silence. He was buried on 15 October (23 Mehr).
Ilam Province's intelligence department announced the arrest of 11 people in Malekshahi County for an alleged role in the January 2026 protests, also accusing them of links to the US and Israel and of shooting at security forces, HRANA and Vahid Online reported.
Mohammadjavad Mohammadzadeh Tavasani, a student from Rudsar detained over the January 2026 protests, was sentenced by Lahijan Criminal Court to six months in prison and 20 lashes for 'disrupting public order', HRANA reported on 17 October. Another part of his case is before Rasht Revolutionary Court. He is held in Lahijan's Azbaram prison.
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