Shackled After Surgery, Imprisoned for Mourning, and Executed at Dawn: Inside Iran’s November Crackdown

Across Iran's prisons and revolutionary courts in early November 2026, state cruelty has reached a new threshold: 60-year-old political prisoner Shiva Esmaili was handcuffed to her hospital bed right after spinal surgery, grieving mother Somayeh Afshar remains locked in prison after the regime executed her son, and two more young protesters were hanged at dawn in Isfahan.