Reports related to arrests and political prisoners
Leila Jafarlu, born in 1990, was arrested again on April 25 in Zanjan; she was previously charged with "propaganda against the regime" and "disclosure of confidential documents," sentenced to three years in prison in 2023, with the sentence suspended for five years.
This week, family members visiting prisoners at Evin Prison in Tehran were subjected to humiliating body searches, including being asked to strip completely naked, according to reports from IranWire.
Bahrain's Interior Minister announced the arrest of individuals with ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the ideology of the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist, stating these arrests were part of a "comprehensive security and legal review" following "Iran's blatant transgression."
According to a report by the prosecutor, Mohammad Reza Miri, a 21-year-old worker who had recently completed his military service, was executed in Mashhad on Sunday, April 13, 2025, after informing his family by phone. Miri was one of three protesters arrested during the December 2024 protests and was sentenced to death along with Ebrahim Dolat-abadie and Mahdi Rasouli for charges including "waging war against God" and "participating in the killing of a law enforcement officer."
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett stated that Iran "seems they're making a lot of progress now," referring to the 2025-2026 Iranian revolution.
On Truth Social, former US President Trump announced that based on requests from Pakistan and other countries, and due to the military success against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the naval blockade will continue but "Operation Freedom" in the Strait of Hormuz will be temporarily suspended to assess the possibility of a final agreement with Tehran.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, imprisoned in Iran since her arrest in Azar 1404 (December 2025), is in critical condition after being hospitalized in the cardiac intensive care unit of a hospital in Zanjan for five days, according to her lawyer Shirin Ardakani, who announced that Mohammadi is "between death and life" following two heart attacks.
The U.S. initiative to reopen the Strait of Hormuz has been marked by conflicting claims, including Iran's assertion that it damaged a U.S. warship, which the U.S. military denied, while CENTCOM reported the destruction of IRGC vessels, a claim rejected by Tehran.
On Tuesday, May 5, 2025, prisoners participating in the "No to Execution Tuesdays" campaign staged a hunger strike in 56 prisons across Iran to protest the increase in executions, which now affect both political and non-political prisoners. Female prisoners in Evin prison were reportedly deprived of visits and phone contact after chanting against the death penalty.
Student activist and former political prisoner Mutahhareh No-Kisheh was summoned to Branch 9 of the Tehran Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office for Culture and Media on a complaint from the Tharallah Headquarters of the IRGC Sepah.
A 33-year-old Baloch woman, Mahsa Brahui, died two days after being beaten and set on fire by her husband in their home in Saravan. Police have arrested the husband following the incident.
Mark Levin quoted a tweet by HRH Reza Pahlavi, drawing more attention than initially anticipated.
