03 January 2026 :
January 2, 2026 - IRAN. 77 new arrests
At least 77 additional individuals have been arrested in recent days amid the continuation of public protests and a widespread wave of detentions across multiple cities in Iran. According to information collected by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, now the total number of recent detainees whose identities have been verified has risen to 132.
Breakdown of all detainees:
At least 12 women
At least 8 children
At least 64 Kurds
At least 39 Lors
At least 7 university students
At least 5 teachers
Breakdown of detainees by city:
The highest number of arrests was recorded in Ilam Province with 22 cases, followed by Kermanshah Province with 18 cases, and Khuzestan Province with 7 cases.
-Ilam Province
Ilam
Mohammadjavad Zarei – January 1;
Iman Alimoradi – January 1;
Alireza Momeni (18) – January 1;
Kourosh Nouri (15) – January 2;
Omid Beiranvand – January 2;
Amirhossein Alizadeh – January 1;
Fardin Aghaei – January 1;
Abolfazl Jamkhaneh – January 1;
Sajad Azad – January 1;
Abdollah Azad – January 1;
Erfan Farahmand – January 1;
Alireza Rahmani – January 1;
Amirreza Rahmani – January 1;
Shayan Momeni – January 1.
Darreh Shahr
Abolfazl Ghasemi – January 2;
Sattar Zeidi – January 2; (previously detained during the Woman, Life, Freedom movement)
Saman Gholami – January 2;
Reza Heidari – January 2.
Dehloran
Javad Hosseini – January 1;
Arshia Jooshan – January 2.
Abdanan
Mohammadjavad Zarei – January 1;
Omid Naseri – January 2;
-Kermanshah Province
Sarpol-e Zahab
Qaem Badri, Askar Najafi, Ahad Moradi, Esfandiar Sarvari, Jabbar Jamshidi, Masoud Aghaei, and Mehdi Karimi (previously detained and injured during the Woman, Life, Freedom movement) were arrested on January 1.
Harsin
Rahman Azarang – January 2;
Mohammadmehdi Karami (17) – January 1;
Mohammad Seyfi – January 2;
Yousef Kakavand – January 2;
Noureddin Mousazadeh – January 2;
Zahed Afshari – January 2.
Kermanshah
Mahsa Zarei – January 2;
Fardin Ahmadi (19, from Hamil, a district of Islamabad-e Gharb) – January 1;
Younes Jamshidi – January 1;
Navid Rostami – January 1;
Milad Shirazi – January 1.
-Khuzestan Province
Izeh
Aref Asadi – December 31;
Reza Asadi – December 31;
Mousa Mousavi – December 30;
Arman Shahpoori – December 30;
Ilya Momeni – December 30;
Akbar Mahmoudvand (16) – December 31;
Armin Asadi – December 31.
Baghmalek
Yousef Mirahmadi
Hadi Mirahmadi
Amirhossein Ghanbari
Amirreza Norouzi
Lali
Bagher Ghanbari – December 31.
-Hamadan Province
Asadabad
Mohammadhossein Shafighian
Yousef Marsali
Sam Forough
Alireza Nouri
Amir Farhadi
All were arrested at approximately 5:00 a.m. on January 2.
-North Khorasan Province
Esfarayen
Peyman Rezaei – January 1;
Arien Heidari – January 1;
Abbas Beidi – January 1;
Issa Shokouri – January 1;
Nader Tavakoli – January 2.
-Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province
Yasuj
Mahan Khoubani (16) – January 1;
Shahab Parand – January 2;
Moslem Parzdar – January 2;
Ilya Akvanian – January 2.
Gachsaran
Fardin Moslemi – January 1;
-Isfahan Province
Isfahan
Mahshad Kashani – December 31, 2025
Reza Salahshour (16) – January 1.
-Razavi Khorasan Province
Sabzevar
Mehdi Fasangari – December 31;
Amir Nodehi (from Sabzevar, resident of Tehran) – January 1;
Erfan Abed (18) – January 1;
Nazanin Zahra Mousavi (17) – January 1.
Mashhad
Asghar Shakeri (physician) – January 1 (Arrested inside his vehicle in front of his family; previously detained during the Woman, Life, Freedom movement).
-Gilan Province
Rasht
Mahnaz Ghasemi – January 1.
-Kurdistan Province
Sanandaj (Sina)
Artin Ahmadi (14) – January 2.
Mithagh Koochpideh – recent days
Among those detained are at least four women, including Mahsa Zarei, a well-known Kurdish cultural activist from Kermanshah (Kermashan), who was arrested at her workplace on Friday, January 2, and transferred to an undisclosed location.
Also arrested were Mahnaz Ghasemi in Rasht, Nazanin Zahra Mousavi, a 17-year-old in Sabzevar, on January 1, and Mahshad Kashani in Isfahan on December 31.
In addition to the arrests listed above, Hengaw has received reports of further detentions in other cities. The identities of those individuals are currently under verification.
Public protests began on Sunday, December 29, 2025, following strikes and collective protest marches by shopkeepers in Tehran, before spreading to other cities. The protests have been met with a repressive response by government forces, and in recent days a significant number of individuals, including women and children, have been arrested.
https://hengaw.net/en/reports-and-statistics-1/2026/01/article-1
