A statement dated 11 October from the National Council of Resistance of Iran — a coalition body grouping various Iranian opposition organisations — placed on the record the names and personal information of twelve people connected to the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) who had been detained across several Iranian cities.
The statement urged the United Nations and international human rights bodies to act without delay, pressing for both a formal determination of the detainees' legal standing and direct access to the facilities where they remain confined.
Arrests of family members and known associates linked to the PMOI/MEK have grown more frequent, forming one strand of a wider pattern in which authorities have moved to limit the reach of opposition networks and restrict organising activity among younger critics of the government — a period that has also seen execution figures rise.
Among the twelve people listed in the document, one entry reads: Nasrollah Fallahi, aged 69 and living in Pakdasht within Tehran Province, who was held as a political prisoner during the 1980s and whose daughter, Arghavan Fallahi, currently faces a death sentence as a political prisoner. His detention was carried out on the fourth day of October.
A detention in 2022 marked Fallahi's most recent time taken into custody prior to that, and he had been released after spending four years behind bars.
Zeynab Saremi is the daughter of Ali Saremi, a PMOI member who was executed. Authorities in Tehran took her into custody during October 2026.
Gholamhossein Saremi, aged 70, holds a postgraduate qualification in social sciences, spent time as a political detainee during the 1980s, and is a sibling of Ali Saremi. Authorities took him into custody in Tehran on the first day of October.
Yaser Bahrami, a 37-year-old from Azadshahr, was taken into custody on 23 August. Salimpour, a 42-year-old from Shahsavar, was taken into custody on 8 August. Leila Barzegar, a 49-year-old from Torbat-e Jam, was taken into custody on 5 August.
Mohammad Javad Hajinejad, aged 30 and living in Jiroft at the time, was taken into custody on the first day of August. Malek Mohammad Shahbakhsh, a 35-year-old Zahedan native, was taken into custody on 29 July.
Sadegh Saffari, a 34-year-old from Estahban in Fars Province, was taken into custody on a date that authorities have yet to make public. Parsanahad, a 34-year-old from Mashhad, was taken into custody on a date that has yet to be made public. Reza Badavi, a 40-year-old from the city of Arak, remains listed among those detained, with no announcement made regarding when he was taken into custody. Hadi Safari — a 50-year-old Delijan resident who completed undergraduate studies in accounting — has had no arrest date made public.
Citing protective concerns for those involved, the National Council of Resistance of Iran stated it had chosen to withhold the identities of further individuals taken into custody. According to the statement, identifying details for every person taken into custody were forwarded to the United Nations, along with human rights bodies and international organisations working in that field.
The NCRI urged the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Special Rapporteur monitoring conditions in Iran to intervene, putting forward three demands: that the status of those in detention be established, that government officials face accountability for their conduct, and that independent access to the relevant holding facilities be granted.
Elsewhere in the same document, the National Council of Resistance of Iran made reference to 82 PMOI members who had entered the residence of Ali Khamenei — described in the statement as Iran's supreme leader — during the predawn hours of 23 February. More than seven months on, the body reported that no information had been received regarding their status.
Nine PMOI members put to death in 2025 and 2026 have yet to have their remains handed over to next of kin, with their families also kept without any information about where the burials took place.
