Najmeh Amini, a 23-year-old student held in Vakilabad prison in Mashhad, has been sentenced to death on a charge of “insulting the Prophet” over a post she published on social media.
Nahid Khodajou, a labor activist and board member of the Free Union of Iranian Workers, was arrested at her home on 6 October, and for six days there has been no word of where she is being held.
UN Special Rapporteur Gina Romero announced that on Tuesday, 13 October she will join the “No to Execution Tuesdays” hunger strike in solidarity with Iran’s political prisoners.
According to HRANA, the Islamic Republic executed at least 2,003 people between October 2025 and October 2026; 69 of them were executed on political and security charges.
Iran Human Rights Society said Pejman Sourani, a 33-year-old resident of Najafabad, died after being beaten by government forces following a verbal argument at a petrol station.
Two councils organising oil workers' protests called on workers to stage nationwide protests and strikes after more than 10 Petropars workers in Hoveyzeh were flogged.
Esmail Khalili Baseri, a prisoner on death row, was executed at dawn on Sunday, 11 October, in Adelabad prison in Shiraz; judicial officials have not announced the execution.
Erfan Jamalzehi, a 15-year-old boy, was shot in the head in Zahedan when military forces opened fire without warning on his family's car; the family is demanding accountability.
Images of men carrying machetes and swords at an IRGC-backed march in Isfahan have revived questions about the use of plainclothes groups in repression.
According to HRANA, five Azerbaijani Turkic activists from Tabriz were each sentenced to one year in prison in Zabol, two years of exile in Zabol and a ban on electronic services.
Cancer treatment for Atefeh Tajik, a 48-year-old political prisoner in Varamin prison, has been halted. According to IranWire, her physical condition is critical and her medication is not reaching her.
Isfahan's justice department called the account of the beating of Omid Ghanouni, a Khansar teenager who died in custody, "false"; local sources speak of internal bleeding after a beating.
Reza Shoja-Mazraji, a Sarakhs teacher with 21 years of service and one of those detained in the January uprising, was sentenced in absentia by the Mashhad Revolutionary Court to more than four years in prison.
Seyed Mokhtar Al-Boshokeh, an Arab political prisoner from Khuzestan, has been on hunger strike in solitary confinement for six days in protest at his forced exile transfer to Arak prison.
Asadollah Jafari, head of the Isfahan provincial justice department, announced the start of identifying women who do not observe compulsory hijab and said the judiciary will deal with them.
The head of the University of Tehran confirmed the expulsion of two students on a charge of "burning a flag"; reports point to hundreds of disciplinary cases against protesting students at universities across the country.
Milad Balsini, a Turkic civil activist from Tabriz, has been detained for more than 50 days on a charge of cooperating with free Persian-language media, Voice of America reports.
Zhila Sadeghi (Movaghen), a Baha'i citizen of Isfahan, was arrested six weeks after her daughter Sarir Movaghen and taken to solitary confinement in Isfahan's Dolatabad prison.
Shahrzad Shahbazi, a lawyer for the defendants in the Isfahan Alikhani Square case, rejected the claims of state media, saying the charge of killing officers was never in the sentence handed down.
Ali Zakani, a 19-year-old protester from Mahmudabad, Qazvin, arrested after the January uprising, has been sentenced to death and forced to confess under torture, according to human rights sources.
