In a statement published on Friday, February 20, 2026, the human rights organization also reported that at least eight of these individuals were tried and sentenced to death only a few weeks after their arrest.
Human rights experts from the United Nations on Friday, February 20, 2026, urged Iranian authorities to transparently disclose the fate and whereabouts of individuals who were “detained, forcibly disappeared, or missing” following the January protests, and to halt all death sent
Domestic media described the day with dramatic headlines such as “an earthquake in Tehran’s stock market” and “a bloody day for the exchange.”
Mohammad-Bagher Abdollahi, CEO of the Eshragh Pharmacists Cooperative in Iran, expressed concern over the sharp rise in medicine prices in the country — “especially in recent weeks” — saying that “the majority of people” can no longer afford the medications they need
In a statement published early Saturday on its website, Serbia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said:
At least nine Kurdish citizens — Saeed Naderi, Hossein Behnamneh, Abolfazl Darbandi, Behzad Akbari, Saeed Yari, Mohammadamin Nazari, Yousef Khattavi, Adib Nazari, and Armin Piraei — were arrested by security forces in the cities of Abdanan and Sarableh in Ilam Provin
On Wednesday, February 18, 2026, marking the 40th day since the mass killings carried out during the January 2026 crackdown, shopkeepers in Abdanan, a city in Ilam Province in Iran’s Kurdistan region, voluntarily shut down all shops and commercial centers in a genera
On Tuesday, February 17, 2026, coinciding with the 40-day memorial ceremonies for those killed in the January 2026 nationwide protests across various cities, forces of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps raided the workplace of Mahmoud Sedighi-Pour — a memb
Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, Secretary-General of the Democratic Front of Iran and a political prisoner held in Isfahan Central Prison, issued a message on Tuesday, February 17, from behind bars expressing strong support for the Congress of Republican and Federal Democrat
Reports and videos from Iranian Kurdistan indicate that on Tuesday, February 17, thousands gathered at the graves of victims of the January protests across several cities — including Abdanan, Malekshahi, Eslamabad-e Gharb, Kermanshah, Khorramabad, and Kuhdasht — to m
