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Human rights alarm: mass arrests and internet shutdowns reported in Iran

Unspecified · January 26, 2026
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An unidentified speaker warned that Iran’s violent repression persists despite fewer street killings, citing mass arrests across cities, detentions of lawyers and activists, an extended internet shutdown cutting off detainees from families and legal counsel, and urged dialogue based on human rights.

An unidentified speaker (Speaker) warned that "killing on the streets of Iran may have subsided, but the brutality continues," and reported mass arrests, detentions and an extended communications blackout that has cut detainees off from family and legal representatives.

The speaker said security forces "made mass arrests in several cities, even pursuing injured people into hospitals and detaining lawyers, human rights defenders,…

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