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Iran’s parliamentary Education Commission has acknowledged that a number of students under the age of 18 were arrested during the crackdown on the January protests, while reporting that its official letter to the Law Enforcement Command regarding students who were killed or deta

According to reports by the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations, Jalal Faramarzi, a Kurdish teacher from Ilam, was summoned to the Intelligence Department of the IRGC after publishing a protest video and calling for a nationwide strike.

According to published reports, Yalda Abbasi, a well-known Kurdish artist and dotar player from Shirvan in North Khorasan, who resides in Germany, was arrested in Mashhad by forces of the Islamic Republic’s Intelligence Ministry after traveling to Iran to visit her family and wa

The Islamic Republic of Iran has sentenced Pouria Saeedi, a Kurdish protester, wrestler, and former member of the national team, to 15 years of discretionary imprisonment, as part of its continuing campaign of repression against protesters and their families.

Reports from Iran indicate that during the violent suppression of nationwide protests, the Islamic Republic has arrested, summoned, and threatened doctors and medical staff who treated protesters wounded by live ammunition and pellet guns.

According to a report received by Avatoday, Keyomars Vaezi, a retired Kurdish teacher, was arrested on Monday, January 5, 2026, in front of his private residence in the city of Sonqor, located in Kermanshah Province in Iranian Kurdistan, by plainclothes security agents.

During the identification of their loved ones’ bodies, these families specifically observed faint movement of the chest, weak breathing, and very limited vital signs in some of the bodies.

Armin Nourmohammadi was arrested in 2023, after the end of the 2022 protests, along with eight others in Islamshahr.

According to reports received by Awatoday, Melika Shahmoradi, a 16-year-old Kurdish teenager from Kerend-e Gharb, in Kermanshah Province (Iranian Kurdistan), was killed on Thursday, January 8, 2026, during popular protests in the Shahrak-e Moallem neighborhood of Kerman