Iran Civic Pulse

Activists report 7002+ protest deaths; surging executions (2k+ total, 25 political since war). New: KHRN June 2026 report documents 101 executions (370 total in 2026), only 53 officially announced; Iran Human Rights Society reports 108. Arghavan Fallahi, 25, sentenced to death by Judge Salavati on July 1 after torture and forced confession; four other women activists sentenced to prison; five more protesters sentenced to death in Mahallat; political prisoner and fiancée sentenced to death; Mehdi Nazer, Mahnaz Chardouli, and a sister also sentenced to death; lawyer Astareh Ansari detained with autoimmune disease; environmental activists arrested in Tehran; St. Peter Church complex confiscated; Baha'i detentions continue; Vahid Khan Sanami sentenced to death; Nima Shiri, 21, sentenced to prison, exile, and flogging. Appeals court upheld 55-year sentences for five Christian converts (house church leaders) on July 1, with Judge Salavati presiding. Five Kurdish protest detainees sentenced to prison terms in Urmia. Executions continue during Muharram; torture and denial of burial rights persist. KHRN June 2026 report details arrests in West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, Ilam. 'No to Executions Tuesdays' campaign marked its 128th week across 57 prisons, condemning Ejei's reappointment and highlighting new death sentences. Orumiyeh court sentenced five January protest detainees to suspended prison terms. Washington's silence emboldens regime. New: border guards killed kolbar Wazir Rahimi in Nowsud and 18-year-old Salah Khoshnamak in Marivan; hunger strikes and new sentences for teacher/labor activists; 350 prisoners in Vakilabad, 30 January protesters in Saveh; CFPPI report documents political prisoners left to die during war; 6,000+ detentions since war; regime seizes bodies of executed protesters and buries them secretly; classified warning projected up to 3,000 deaths at Khamenei's funeral due to poor planning and forced participation. On-the-ground accounts report 7,000 protest deaths and lingering trauma. NCRI reports PMOI resistance units active in Zahedan. British couple Lindsay and Craig Foreman on hunger strike in Tehran prison, with deteriorating health and family pleas for medical care, denied contact — used as hostages. New cases: Mohammad Moaidi Shakib on hunger strike in Evin for nine days; lawyer Astareh Ansari detained; Kamal Khanbabai sentenced to death in Qazvin; critical conditions report documents 101 executions in June (discrepancy with 108 from Iran Human Rights Society) and medical neglect of political prisoners. A new lawsuit alleges the US shared Iranian asylum seekers' application details with Iran, directly endangering dissidents, LGBTQ individuals, and religious minorities — a major human rights breach. Amnesty International released two reports marking six months since the January 2026 protest massacres (3,117 official deaths, 5,000+ UN estimate) and calling for global pressure and universal jurisdiction investigations, highlighting international inaction. New today: 12 young protesters in Isfahan face imminent execution after a sham trial, including minors, denied lawyers and case files — same judge from 'Khaneh Isfahan' case. Also, a harrowing first-person account of torture and sentencing from January protests: protester Mehdi (surname not given) was given pills to induce suicidal thoughts and threatened with amputation of his tattooed hand. A new first-person account from Tehran captures collective numbness and powerlessness after war and Khamenei's death; the state mobilizes for mourning but denies grieving families; the embedded Isfahan case of 12 young protesters facing execution (upheld July 5) is a critical human rights alert. New on-the-ground testimonies from AP and other outlets humanize the January massacre victims: Mostafa Adgarsalehi lost family to IRGC; Abolfazl Jahedi, 18, dreamed of being a firefighter. The AP article captures a bitterly divided Iran, with voices of despair, economic pain, and family trauma beneath the state's show of strength.