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.
54 Women in 12 Months: Inside Iran’s Secret Execution Surge Against Mothers, Child Brides, and Protesters
New human rights monitoring reveals that Iranian authorities carried out at least 96 executions in October 2026 alone -- with 81 percent conducted in secret without public notice. Over the past 12 months, at least 54 women have been sent to the gallows, including mothers of young children, former child brides, and protesters from the January 2026 uprising.