Iranian prison guards conducted a violent raid on political prisoners in Evin Prison’s Ward 7 on August 1, 2026, beating inmates and forcibly transferring six individuals—including several PMOI/MEK supporters—to an unknown location.

The raid forms part of a broader escalation of repression, including recent executions of PMOI members and the issuance of death sentences against dissidents, often based on family ties or alleged affiliations.

The Iranian Resistance attributes the crackdown to the regime’s fear of popular uprising and growing youth support for opposition groups, calling for urgent UN intervention, prison inspections, and an end to the persecution of political prisoners.

The Iranian regime is dangerously escalating its physical harassment and pressure on political prisoners, highlighted by a brutal, unprovoked raid on Evin Prison. On Saturday, August 1, 2026, at approximately 11:30 AM, prison guards violently assaulted inmates in the political prisoners’ hall of Evin’s Ward 7. The guards severely beat the prisoners and forcibly transferred six individuals to an unknown location, dragging them away despite their injuries and torn clothes.

Five of the disappeared victims are supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). They include Amir Hossein Moradi, a 26-year-old elite student at Sharif University of Technology who has been held without a single day of furlough since his arrest in April 2020,........

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