While the international community’s attention remains focused on the Iranian regime’s horrific execution spree, the ruling clerics are simultaneously waging a silent, cruel war against the most vulnerable: the families of political prisoners.

Over the past week, between late March and early April 2026, the regime executed six political prisoners and members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK)—Mohammad Taghavi, Akbar Daneshvarkar, Babak Alipour, Pouya Ghobadi, Vahid Bani Amerian, and Abolhassan Montazer. Unable to break the resistance of the prisoners themselves, the desperately weakened regime has resorted to hostage-taking, arresting elderly, sick, and grieving family members to exact collective punishment and silence advocacy.

Arbitrary arrest of the Alipour family

The circumstances surrounding PMOI martyr member Babak Alipour, who was hanged on March 31, 2026, highlight the depth of the regime’s........

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