Overview
- Defense lawyers say security forces have sharply intensified nighttime home raids and mass arrests across multiple provinces in recent weeks.
- Prosecutors are reportedly filing preliminary charges carrying the death penalty, including moharebeh, with many cases routed to Branch 15 under Judge Hadi Ghafourian and kept off the SANA registry without case numbers.
- One cited case involves 27-year-old Fa’ezeh Ahmadi in Mazandaran, who lawyers say faces a moharebeh charge despite what they describe as a lack of evidence.
- Lawyers allege secret executions in Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz and Mashhad with bodies sent to mortuaries, while officials attribute the deaths to street clashes.
- Detainees, including minors, are said to be held in undisclosed facilities under pressure for forced confessions, and families report threats for seeking information, media attention or legal counsel, with some lawyers speculating—without verification—that larger executions could be timed to follow U.S.–Iran developments.