According to local sources, the identity of one of the individuals killed during the protests in the Dare Darizh neighborhood of Kermanshah has been confirmed. Saman Nazari, a Yarsani citizen, lost his life on January 8, 2026, as a result of direct gunfire by the Islamic Republic’s security forces.

At present, due to a nationwide internet shutdown and severe restrictions on international phone communications into Iran, independent and accurate verification of this information remains seriously limited.

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Abtin Shekarabi, a professional bodybuilder, announced on his personal page that his friend, bodybuilding champion Massoud Zatparvar, participated in the recent protests in Rasht and lost his life.

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Footage of the Islamic Republic forces opening fire on Hazrati Street in the city of Kazerun, Fars Province, on January 10.

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Reports indicate that on the evening of January 8, 2026, a significant number of protesters were killed by security forces in various cities across Iran.

According to an informed source, nearly 200 people were killed in Tehran alone as a result of direct gunfire, with many victims reportedly shot in the head.

At present, due to widespread internet disruptions and even restrictions on international phone calls, independent and accurate verification of these figures through reliable sources is not possible.


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Continued Protests in Iran, Saturday Night – Rasht, Gilan | January 10, 2026

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According to reports published by Hengaw, Rubina Aminian, a 24-year-old Kurdish student from Marivan, was killed by direct gunfire from government security forces during recent protests in Tehran.


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According to an informed source speaking to the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, all members of a Yarsani family were arrested yesterday, Friday, January 9, in Kerend-e Gharb, Kermanshah Province.

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At approximately 9:20 p.m. on Saturday, January 10, reports indicate intense and direct clashes between protesters and security forces in the areas of 17 Shahrivar Street and Shadabad. Witnesses report that the security forces are non-Iranian and were chanting “Ya Allah, Hezbollah.”
At this time, independent verification of these reports is not possible.

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Eyewitness videos from across Iran show plainclothes agents, IRGC forces, and police firing live and less-lethal ammunition directly at unarmed protesters. The footage documents a longstanding, systematic use of lethal force by the Islamic Republic against civilians exercising their right to protest. While such violence is not new, the scale and intensity recorded in the past 72 hours exceed even the November 2019 crackdown. The Islamic Republic, and those who ordered and carried out these acts, must be held accountable.

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A Witness from Kahrizak

A citizen describes a warehouse in Kahrizak, Tehran, where the bodies of slain protesters were piled as families frantically searched for their loved ones. Through tears, he recounts witnessing a civilian beside him shot dead by live fire from security forces and says he saw hundreds of bodies from the protests.

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با وجود سرکوب گسترده، بازداشت‌های فراوان، تیراندازی مستقیم و فشارهای بی‌سابقه امنیتی، اعتراضات دی‌ماه ۱۴۰۴ پس از ۱۴ روز پیاپی همچنان ادامه دارد و به یکی از ماندگارترین موج‌های اعتراضی سال‌های اخیر تبدیل شده است. در این مدت، مردم در شهرهای مختلف بارها و بارها به خیابان آمده‌اند؛ نشانه‌ای روشن از آن‌که ترس جای خود را به امید و اراده برای تغییر داده است. استمرار اعتراضات در شرایطی که هزینه‌ها سنگین‌تر شده، بیانگر عمق نارضایتی عمومی و عزم جامعه برای پایان دادن به وضع موجود است.

در حالی که اینترنت برای چند روز متوالی قطع یا به‌شدت مختل شده و حکومت تلاش کرده با ایجاد انزوای خبری صدای معترضان را خاموش کند، مردم همچنان راه خیابان را انتخاب می‌کنند و خواهان تغییر بنیادین این نظام هستند. این حضور مداوم، حتی در تاریکیِ تحمیل‌شده‌ی قطع ارتباطات، نشان می‌دهد که مطالبه‌ی آزادی، عدالت و کرامت انسانی به نیرویی بازگشت‌ناپذیر تبدیل شده است؛ نیرویی که نه با گلوله متوقف می‌شود و نه با قطع اینترنت، و هر روز ریشه‌دارتر از قبل به پیش می‌رود.


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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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