Boyer-Ahmad Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office summons six Yasuj civil activists and demands their phones

The First Investigation Branch of the Boyer-Ahmad Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office has summoned six civil activists in Yasuj. In a notice issued on Monday, 12 October 2026, the six were given three days to present themselves to the judicial authority and hand in their mobile phones.

Those summoned are Yaser Mahmoudi Mordraz, Nowrouzali Rashidnejad, Kourosh Jalil, Saeed Taherifar, Sasan Zarghampour Boyer-Ahmadi and Seyed Davood Malek-Hosseini. The charges the Islamic Republic's judiciary attributes to them include "propaganda against the system", "assembly and collusion against national security" and contact with groups opposed to the Islamic Republic. The notice also lists other charges, including membership of domestic opposition groups, cooperation with foreign governments that the authorities call hostile, insulting Ruhollah Khomeini and Ali Khamenei, and taking part in gatherings that the judiciary regards as aimed at overthrow.

Background of the Yasuj civil activists' case

The six were first arrested in Yasuj in April-May 2022, and a hearing on their political and security charges was held at the Yasuj Revolutionary Court in February-March 2024. Now, more than four years after the first arrest, the case has been revived with broader charges.

Nowrouzali Rashidnejad is a teacher and a trade-union activist among educators, and had been arrested before. Yaser Mahmoudi Mordraz was expelled from Yasuj University of Medical Sciences in April-May 2024 by a ruling of the Selection Core.

Summons of civil activists and repression in provincial towns

Demanding defendants' mobile phones is a method that security bodies use to gain access to activists' communications and network of acquaintances. The summonses come as a wave of repression continues in smaller towns too; including the suppression of the protest by the people of Meymeh in Isfahan province with tear gas and gunfire, and the extension of the detention of Ahmad Rahimi, a Mashhad university professor.

Six Yasuj civil activists, more than four years after their first arrest, have been summoned again with a longer list of charges.