Ghazal Abdollahi, daughter of political detainee Alieh Motalebzadeh, told Dadban that nearly a month after the arrest of her mother and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi in Mashhad, they remain under severe security pressure with no information about their cases or the length of their detention. In a very brief phone call, her mother said the situation is extremely unclear, even detainee officers provide no answers, and pressure continues to intensify before the call was abruptly cut. Abdollahi added that Alieh Motalebzadeh, Narges Mohammadi, Sepideh Gholian, Hasti Amiri, and Pouran Nazemi are still held in solitary confinement, under interrogation, and denied access to lawyers and family visits.


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Vahid Online shared a video, describing it as a deeply distressing scene from the Kahrizak Forensic Center in Tehran, showing victims killed on Thursday, January 8. According to the post, the source of the video is someone who has recently left Iran. The bodies of those killed were reportedly transported in a pickup truck, while people were told: “Look through them and find your loved one’s body.”

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In the past 72 hours alone, the Islamic Republic has killed hundreds of unarmed protesters across Iran.

As in prior crackdowns, the regime imposed a nationwide internet blackout, cut international communications, and then deployed lethal force against civilians. This time, the scale of the killings cannot be concealed.

Despite systematic censorship, videos, photographs, and eyewitness testimony documenting mass shootings continue to surface. The volume, consistency, and credibility of this evidence make denial untenable—both inside Iran and among regime apologists abroad.

Having failed to suppress the facts, authorities have reverted to a familiar tactic: narrative reconstruction. State media now brand protesters as “terrorists,” reviving the rhetoric that preceded mass executions in the 1980s, including the 1988 massacre. This framing has been explicitly endorsed by the Supreme Leader, the head of the judiciary, and national police.

The judiciary has announced expedited special courts to prosecute thousands of civilians, including children, in proceedings that strip defendants of due process.

On the basis of credible and corroborated evidence, the Islamic Republic is committing large-scale crimes against humanity. The international community must unequivocally condemn these acts and hold the regime, its officials, and its agents accountable.

https://iranhrdc.org/crimes-against-humanity-in-iran-silence-is-not-an-option/


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After hundreds of unarmed protesters were killed across Iran, the Islamic Republic declared three days of “public mourning”—a blatant attempt to distort reality, legitimize state violence, and intensify repression. State media call the victims “martyrs of the Iranian national resistance against the U.S. and the Zionist regime,” claiming protesters attacked the people, Basij, and law enforcement with “ISIS-like” brutality.

This is not an error, but a pattern: the regime massacres, denies the killings, fabricates reality, and pressures victims’ families to enforce the official lie

Swift, secretive trials and labeling protesters “ISIS-like” signal the regime’s intent to justify further massacres. The international community is obligated—not out of sympathy, but based on legal and ethical responsibilities—to take effective, targeted, and binding measures to prevent this regime and its forces from continuing the suppression and murder of defenseless citizens, and to hold them accountable for their crimes.

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پس از کشته شدن صدها معترض غیرمسلح در سراسر ایران، جمهوری اسلامی سه روز «عزای عمومی» اعلام کرد؛ اقدامی آشکار برای تحریف واقعیت، مشروع جلوه دادن خشونت دولتی و تشدید سرکوب. رسانه‌های دولتی قربانیان این کشتار را «شهدای مقاومت ملی ایرانیان در برابر آمریکا و رژیم صهیونیستی» می‌نامند و ادعا می‌کنند که معترضان با خشونتی «داعشی‌وار» به مردم، بسیجیان و نیروهای انتظامی حمله کرده‌اند.

این یک خطا نیست، بلکه بخشی از الگویی ثابت است: رژیم کشتار می‌کند، قتل‌ها را انکار می‌کند، واقعیت را جعل می‌کند و خانواده‌های قربانیان را تحت فشار قرار می‌دهد تا دروغ رسمی را بپذیرند.

برگزاری دادگاه‌های سریع و مخفی و نسبت دادن عنوان «داعشی» به معترضان، نشانه‌ای روشن از عزم رژیم برای توجیه کشتارهای بیشتر است. جامعه جهانی موظف است—نه از سر همدردی، بلکه بر اساس تعهدات حقوقی و اخلاقی—اقداماتی مؤثر، هدفمند و الزام‌آور انجام دهد تا مانع ادامه سرکوب و قتل شهروندان بی‌دفاع شود و عاملان این جنایات را پاسخگو سازد.

سکوت جایز نیست.


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Iran protests continue; Sunday, January 11, 2026 — Punak, Tehran

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Erfan Soltani, a 26-year-old man detained during Iran’s recent protests, is facing an imminent risk of execution.

According to Hengaw, agents of the Islamic Republic informed Soltani’s family that he has been sentenced to death and that the execution is scheduled for Wednesday, January 14. The family has been told they will be allowed only a brief final visit before the sentence is carried out.

The alarming speed of his arrest, sentencing, and the announcement of an execution date has raised serious concerns about the complete absence of due process and the emergence of so-called “summary courts” — a pattern that could lead to the rapid and widespread execution of protesters.

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On Monday, January 12, Tavaana published a letter from a doctor living in Tehran, revealing the scale of the mass killing of civilians and protesters during Iran’s total internet shutdown:

“[…] I hope you’re well and managing to stay calm during these painful days of complete isolation and uncertainty.

Unfortunately, all contact with the outside world has been cut off — internet, landlines, and mobile phones. Only a few hours a day, limited internal mobile calls are possible. Our only window to the world is satellite news channels.

I’m writing this so you can urgently share it wherever you can. What we hear from BBC, Iran International, and other satellite networks shows that the reality in Iran is still not understood. They keep saying security forces are hesitant or weaker than before, and that mass killing hasn’t happened. The truth is exactly the opposite.

The reason the videos being aired don’t show massacres is because they’re mostly filmed in streets where protests were never expected. In areas where real clashes and killings happen, filming is practically impossible.

Every night, Islamic Republic forces brutally attack one or two neighborhoods, creating literal rivers of blood. With extreme hatred and motivation, they open fire on defenseless people — mostly teenagers and very young adults — as if they were attacking the heart of an enemy army.

About the death toll: colleagues working in different hospitals across Tehran report that around 30 lifeless bodies are brought to their hospitals every night — even to private hospitals. I have no exact count of those who later die from bleeding, but one of their tactics is stabbing people with knives and machetes, then leaving them to bleed to death.

Based on what I’ve heard from colleagues and from families now mourning their loved ones, I estimate that over the past two or three nights alone, more than 3,000 people have been killed in Tehran. In other cities, I believe at least 10,000 have been killed. In many smaller towns, I’ve heard figures of 20 to 30 deaths each.

Two nights ago in Tehran, a doctor sitting inside his car was beaten on the neck with a baton. He suffered a spinal cord injury and is now on a ventilator — if he’s still alive.

Last night, I personally saw 50–60 motorcyclists driving through Keshavarz Boulevard and Enghelab Square (in Tehran), blasting war chants through loudspeakers, carrying Hezbollah flags, speeding through the streets and spreading fear among everyone.

If anyone is going to help us, even tomorrow may be too late. If the balance of power shifts even slightly in favor of the Islamic Republic due to people’s fear or exhaustion, they could kill 100,000 people overnight without hesitation.

I beg you: drop everything today and get this information to news agencies, human rights organizations, the U.S. State Department, the President of the United States, journalists — anyone who might be able to help the people of Iran.

Let the world hear us before it’s too late. Tell them that this time, the mullahs have sealed the dark fate of our generation with the red blood of our youth.

I love you. Take care of yourself. I trust you will do this well.”


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Targeted Killings by Regime Forces in Tehran

A video shared by Nazila Maroofian, an Iranian journalist, on X, citing an informed source, shows injured protesters during demonstrations in Tehran.

According to the source, Islamic Republic forces fired live ammunition directly at protesters’ heads, deliberately targeting the head and eyes. The footage depicts two women and one man wounded by gunfire, with the man later succumbing to his injuries. The condition of the two women remains unknown.

Amid an internet shutdown and the blockage of international communications, independent verification of these events is severely constrained. Nonetheless, based on the limited evidence that has reached outside Iran, the Islamic Republic’s actions in suppressing the peaceful protests constitute serious violations of international law and demonstrate patterns consistent with large-scale crimes against humanity.

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The identity of Yasin Mirzaei Qaleh Zanjiri, son of Ali Mohammad, has been identified and confirmed by informed sources as one of those killed during the protests in Dareh Deraz, Kermanshah, on Friday, January 9, 2026.

He was a Yarsani citizen who had moved to Italy approximately three years ago to continue his studies, but had returned to Iran and Kermanshah in recent weeks to visit his family. According to these sources, he was killed by a gunshot. In recent days,

hundreds of peaceful protesters across different parts of Iran have been killed by gunfire from Islamic Republic forces. Due to internet shutdowns and disruptions to international phone communications, the documentation process is moving slowly.


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هویت یاسین میرزایی قلعه‌زنجیری، فرزند علی‌محمد، توسط منابع مطلع به‌عنوان یکی از جان‌باختگان اعتراضات دره‌دریژ کرمانشاه در روز جمعه ۱۹ دی‌ماه ۱۴۰۴ شناسایی و تأیید شد.

این شهروند یارسانی حدود سه سال پیش برای ادامه تحصیل به ایتالیا مهاجرت کرده بود، اما در هفته‌های اخیر برای دیدار با خانواده‌اش به ایران و کرمانشاه بازگشته بود. به گفته این منابع، علت جان‌باختن او اصابت گلوله بوده است.

در روزهای اخیر، صدها نفر از مردم معترض در بخش‌های مختلف ایران با شلیک گلوله نیروهای جمهوری اسلامی کشته شده‌اند. به دلیل قطع اینترنت و تماس‌های تلفنی خارجی، روند مستندسازی این موارد با کندی پیش می‌رود.

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According to Iran International, Iran has entered a state of organized blackout aimed not only at security control but at concealing the truth about a historic crime. Following days of careful verification using multiple sources—including individuals close to the Supreme National Security Council, the presidential office, members of the IRGC in several cities, medical staff, eyewitnesses, and families of victims—the outlet concludes that during the largest mass killing in Iran’s modern history, at least 12,000 protesters were killed, mainly over two consecutive nights on January 8–9. The report says the killings were organized, nationwide, and carried out largely by IRGC and Basij forces, with many victims under the age of 30, and claims the operation was conducted under direct orders from Ali Khamenei with approval from senior state authorities. Due to severe internet shutdowns and information suppression, the outlet stresses that final casualty figures still require further documentation, though available evidence makes the scale of the killings credible.

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Censorship Intensifies Amid Protests as Authorities Remove Satellite Dishes and Cut Communications

As protests continue, reports indicate that security forces have begun removing satellite dishes from private homes. In previous years, the Iranian authorities mainly relied on signal jamming to disrupt satellite broadcasts, but the direct dismantling of satellite dishes now appears to be back on the agenda.

These actions come as, for the past five days, amid the spread of nationwide protests and large crowds taking to the streets, the Iranian authorities have cut access to the global internet. During this period, both landline and mobile phone calls to and from outside Iran have also been disrupted or fully blocked. Observers view this coordinated campaign as an effort to conceal the reality of the protests and prevent the flow of independent information.

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The Islamic Republic Regime has adopted a strategy of “victory through fear,” having killed an estimated 12,000 peaceful protesters in just two days, using terror to enforce silence and project control. This method recalls the darkest periods of Iran’s history marked by foreign conquest, when extreme violence was used not merely to defeat opposition but to annihilate social will and preempt resistance.

Rule by terror is not a demonstration of power; it is an admission of illegitimacy. There is scarcely any modern equivalent to the brutality of a government that massacres its own citizens on such a scale in such a brief period. Such conduct places the regime outside the bounds of lawful governance and into the realm of mass repression.

The scale of this violence exposes a regime that no longer governs by consent, law, or political legitimacy, but by fear alone.

In these circumstances, expressions of concern or routine condemnations by the international community are grossly inadequate. What is urgently required is decisive action—measures that impose real consequences and ensure accountability for systematic and deliberate crimes against civilians. Silence, or symbolic rebuke without enforcement, serves only to embolden further atrocities.

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Reports of Money Demanded for the Release of Protesters’ Bodies Raise Serious Human Rights Concerns

Recent reports and testimonies indicate that families of protesters killed during the unrest have been asked to pay money in exchange for the return of their loved ones’ bodies. While these accounts cannot currently be independently verified due to widespread communication blackouts, restricted access to information, and the absence of independent monitoring, the repetition, consistency, and volume of such reports warrant serious attention.

If substantiated, these practices would constitute grave violations of fundamental human rights principles. Under international human rights law, including the right to human dignity, the prohibition of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, and the right of families to know the fate of their relatives, the withholding of bodies and conditioning their release on payment is unlawful and inhumane. Such actions may also amount to collective punishment and psychological abuse of families, who are entitled to mourn and bury their dead without coercion or fear.

Furthermore, international standards require states to ensure transparent investigation of deaths, preserve the dignity of the deceased, and respect the rights of families; particularly in cases involving alleged unlawful killings. Turning the bodies of victims into instruments of pressure or financial extortion, if proven, would represent a profound breach of these obligations.

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54-Year-Old Man Killed by Direct Gunfire During Peaceful Protest in Tehran

According to received information, Miragha Rezaei, a 54-year-old father of two, was killed on the evening of January 9, 2026, during peaceful protest gatherings in the Fallah neighborhood of Tehran, after being shot directly by state forces. Reports indicate that. His body was handed over to his family on January 10, 2026, by security authorities at the Kahrizak Forensic Medicine Center.

A video has also emerged showing the moment Rezaei’s body was identified among a large number of corpses at the Kahrizak facility, highlighting the scale and human toll of the ongoing crackdown.

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