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伊朗安全人员在凌晨2点突袭而来，六辆汽车停在纳基伊（Nakhii）家族住宅外。他们叫醒了熟睡的姐妹——37岁的纽莎（Nyusha）和25岁的莫娜（Mona），并强迫她们交出手机密码。随后，这两名女子被带走。
据她们的一位朋友向美联社透露，这两名女子被指控参与了一周前席卷伊朗的全国性抗议活动。由于担心自身安全，该朋友要求匿名，她描述了1月16日的逮捕事件。
在上个月政府镇压了要求结束伊朗神权统治的抗议活动之后，此类逮捕行动已持续数周。从主要城市到乡镇，都有关于突袭住宅和工作场所的报道，这表明一个已触及伊朗社会广大层面的抓捕网络正在运作。大学生、医生、律师、教师、演员、企业家、运动员和电影人都被卷入其中，甚至包括与总统马苏德·佩泽什基安（Masoud Pezeshkian）关系密切的改革派人士。
据监测逮捕行动的活动人士称，这些人通常被单独关押数天或数周，无法与家人或律师联系，这让绝望的亲属们只能四处寻找亲人。
总部位于美国的人权活动家新闻社（Human Rights Activists News Agency）称逮捕人数已超过5万人。美联社无法核实这一数字。自伊朗当局实施互联网封锁以来，追踪被拘留者变得极为困难，相关报道只能艰难地泄露出来。
伊朗境外的其他活动团体也在努力记录这些大规模抓捕行动。
“当局仍在继续识别人员并实施拘留，”参与记录行动的“被拘留抗议者状况监测委员会”组织者希瓦·纳扎拉哈里（Shiva Nazarahari）表示。
到目前为止，该委员会通过家属直接报告和当地联络网络，核实了超过2200人的被捕名单。被捕者包括107名大学生、82名年仅13岁的儿童，以及19名律师和106名医生。
纳扎拉哈里称，当局一直在审查市政街道摄像头、商店监控录像和无人机拍摄的影像，以追踪参与抗议活动的人员，并在他们的家中或工作场所将其逮捕。
被单独关押数周无法联系
抗议活动始于12月底，因物价飞涨引发的愤怒而爆发，并迅速蔓延至全国。1月8日和9日达到高潮，全国190多个城镇有数十万人走上街头。
安全部队以前所未有的暴力回应。人权活动家新闻社已统计出超过7000人死亡，称实际数字要高得多。伊朗政府于1月21日公布了唯一的死亡人数，称有3117人遇难。神权政权过去的动荡中，死亡人数一直被低估或未被报告。
伊朗司法机构负责人、强硬派神职人员戈拉姆侯赛因·穆赫森尼·伊杰希（Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejehi）成为镇压行动的代表人物，他将抗议者称为“恐怖分子”，并呼吁快速审判和惩罚。
“从那以后，拘留变得非常普遍，因为这就像整个社会被窒息，”一名在首都德黑兰郊区Gohardasht地区接受美联社采访的抗议者表示。他要求匿名，因为担心被当局报复。他透露，镇压初期，他的两名亲属、他兄弟的三名朋友以及几名邻居都被杀害。
37岁的纽莎和25岁的莫娜被首先送往德黑兰臭名昭著的埃文监狱（Evin Prison），在那里她们被允许与父母联系。据其朋友称，之后她们被转移到德黑兰郊外的Qarchak女子监狱，人权组织曾报告称，该监狱在镇压前就存在过度拥挤和卫生条件差的问题。
被拘留者委员会记录的其他被捕者中，有人已消失在监狱系统中。阿卜杜勒法兹尔·贾兹比（Abolfazl Jazbi）的家人自1月15日他在南部城市伊斯法罕一家工厂被捕后就再也没有他的消息。据该委员会称，贾兹比患有严重的血液疾病，需要药物治疗。
45岁的阿提拉·苏丹普尔（Atila Sultanpour）自1月29日被安全人员从德黑兰家中带走并遭到严重殴打后，也失去了联系。据在国外记录拘留情况的伊朗律师团体“Dadban”称，类似案例还有很多。
据“Dadban”律师穆萨·巴尔津（Musa Barzin）称，当局还采取措施冻结抗议者亲属或公开支持他们的人的银行账户、封锁SIM卡并没收其财产。
巴尔津表示，在过去的抗议镇压中，当局有时还维持表面上的正当法律程序，但这次完全不同。当局越来越多地剥夺被拘留者获得法律顾问的权利，经常将他们关押数天或数周后才允许与家人通话。代表被捕抗议者的律师也面临法庭传票和拘留。
“法治状况处于有史以来最糟糕的境地，”巴尔津说。
反抗迹象持续显现
尽管镇压持续，许多公民团体仍在发布抗议声明。
具有悠久异见传统的独立团体伊朗作家协会（Writers’ Association of Iran）发表声明，称抗议活动是对“47年来系统性腐败和歧视”的反抗。
该协会还宣布两名成员已被拘留，其中包括一名秘书处成员。
代表学校教师的全国委员会呼吁家庭公开谈论被拘留的儿童和学生。“不要害怕安全部队的威胁，寻求独立律师帮助，公开你孩子的名字，”该委员会在声明中表示。
该委员会发言人周日表示，他们已记录至少200名未成年人在镇压中死亡，这一数字比几天前的统计增加了几十人。
“我们每天都告诉自己这是最后一份名单，”穆罕默德·哈比比（Mohammad Habibi）在X平台（原推特）上写道，“但第二天早上，新的名字又出现了。”
律师协会和医疗团体也发表了声明，包括伊朗官方认可的医生委员会，该委员会呼吁当局停止骚扰医疗人员。
伊朗流亡王储礼萨·巴列维（Reza Pahlavi）周六呼吁发起“全球行动日”，敦促支持者在慕尼黑、洛杉矶和多伦多走上街头，推动“支持伊朗人民的紧急实际行动”。
“在这一危急时刻，我们聚集在一起，质问：世界是否会与伊朗人民站在一起？”礼萨·巴列维周六在慕尼黑的新闻发布会上说道。德国城市本周正在举行一年一度的全球安全人士和欧洲领导人安全会议。法新社报道称，警方估计约有20万人参加了慕尼黑的抗议活动。
作为伊朗被废黜国王的儿子，巴列维试图在伊朗的未来政治格局中占据一席之地。他警告称，如果民主国家袖手旁观，伊朗可能会有更多人死亡。他补充说，伊朗政府的持续存在“向所有欺凌者发出了一个明确信号：只要杀戮足够多的人，你就能维持权力”。
对流血事件的愤怒，叠加了数十年来因制裁、腐败和管理不善导致的经济崩溃带来的怨恨。伊朗货币价值暴跌，通货膨胀达到历史最高水平。
伊朗政府宣布了一些措施，如推出基本商品新优惠券计划。包括全国退休人员协会在内的劳工和贸易团体发表声明，谴责经济和政治危机。
伊朗与美国
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普已将一艘航空母舰和其他军事资产部署到波斯湾，并暗示美国可能因“和平示威者被杀”或“德黑兰对抗议活动进行大规模处决”而攻击伊朗。第二艘美国航空母舰正前往中东地区。
伊朗神权政权过去曾数次挫败抗议活动和美国威胁，此次镇压行动也显示出其对国家的铁腕控制。本周，当局组织了数十万人的亲政府集会，纪念1979年伊斯兰革命周年纪念日。
然而，巴尔津认为，此次镇压的残酷程度表明，伊朗领导层“首次害怕被推翻”。
Arrests of protesters continue to roil Iran weeks after demonstrations, government crackdown
2026-02-14T07:15:00-0500 / CBS/AP
The Iranian security agents came at 2 a.m., pulling up in a half-dozen cars outside the home of the Nakhii family. They woke up the sleeping sisters, Nyusha and Mona, and forced them to give the passwords for their phones. Then they took the two away.
The women were accused of participating in the nationwide protests that shook Iran a week earlier, a friend of the pair told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity for her security as she described the Jan. 16 arrests.
Such arrests have been happening for weeks following the government crackdown last month that crushed the protests calling for the end of the country’s theocratic rule. Reports of raids on homes and workplaces have come from major cities and rural towns alike, revealing a dragnet that has touched large swaths of Iranian society. University students, doctors, lawyers, teachers, actors, business owners, athletes and filmmakers have been swept up, as well as reformist figures close to President Masoud Pezeshkian.
They are often held incommunicado for days or weeks and prevented from contacting family members or lawyers, according to activists monitoring the arrests. That has left desperate relatives searching for their loved ones.
The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency has put the number of arrests at more than 50,000. The AP has been unable to verify the figure. Tracking the detainees has been difficult since Iranian authorities imposed an internet blackout, and reports leak out only with difficulty.
People gather during protest on Jan. 8, 2026, in Tehran, Iran. Anonymous / Getty Images
Other activist groups outside Iran have also been working to document the sweeps.
“Authorities continue to identify people and detain them,” said Shiva Nazarahari, an organizer with one of those groups, the Committee for Monitoring the Status of Detained Protesters.
So far, the committee has verified the names of more than 2,200 people who were arrested, using direct reports from families and a network of contacts on the ground. The arrestees include 107 university students, 82 children as young as 13, as well as 19 lawyers and 106 doctors.
Nazarahari said authorities have been reviewing municipal street cameras, store surveillance cameras and drone footage to track people who participated in the protests to their homes or places of work, where they are arrested.
Held for weeks with no contact
The protests began in late December, triggered by anger over spiraling prices, and quickly spread across the country. They peaked on Jan. 8 and 9, when hundreds of thousands of people in more than 190 cities and towns across the country took to the streets.
Security forces responded by unleashing unprecedented violence. The Human Rights Activists News Agency has so far counted more than 7,000 dead and says the true number is far higher. Iran’s government offered its only death toll on Jan. 21, saying 3,117 people were killed. The theocracy has undercounted or not reported fatalities from past unrest.
Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejehi, a hard-line cleric who heads Iran’s judiciary, became the face of the crackdown, labeling protesters “terrorists” and calling for fast-tracked punishments.
Since then, “detentions have been very widespread because it’s like a whole suffocation of society,” said one protester, reached by the AP in Gohardasht, a middle-class area outside the Iranian capital. He said two of his relatives and three of his brother’s friends were killed in the first days of the crackdown, as well as several neighbors. The protester spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of being targeted by authorities.
Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran on January 9, 2026. MAHSA / Middle East Images via AFP
The Nakhii sisters, 37-year-old Nyusha and 25-year-old Mona, were first taken to Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, where they were allowed to contact their parents, their friend said. Later, she said, they were moved to Qarchak, a women’s prison on the outskirts of Tehran where rights groups reported conditions that included overcrowding and lack of hygiene even before the crackdown.
Other people whose arrests were documented by the detainees committee have disappeared into the prisons. The family of Abolfazl Jazbi has not heard from him since his Jan. 15 arrest at a factory in the southern city of Isfahan. Jazbi suffers from a severe blood disorder that requires medication, according to the committee.
Atila Sultanpour, 45, has not been heard from since he was taken from his home in Tehran on Jan. 29 by security agents who beat him severely, according to Dadban, a group of Iranian lawyers based abroad who are also documenting detentions.
Authorities have also moved to suspend bank accounts, block SIM cards and confiscate the property of protesters’ relatives or people who publicly express support for them, said Musa Barzin, an attorney with Dadban, citing reports from families.
In past crackdowns on protests, authorities sometimes adhered to a veneer of due process and rule of law, but not this time, Barzin said. Authorities are increasingly denying detainees access to legal counsel and often holding them for days or weeks before allowing any phone calls to family. Lawyers representing arrested protesters also have faced court summons and detention, according to Dadban.
“The following of the law is in the worst situation it has ever been,” Barzin said.
Signs of defiance continue
Despite the crackdown, many civic groups continue to issue defiant statements.
The Writers’ Association of Iran, an independent group with a long tradition of dissent, issued a statement describing the protests as an uprising against “47 years of systemic corruption and discrimination.”
It also announced that two of its members had been detained, including a member of its secretariat.
A national council representing schoolteachers urged families to speak out about detained children and students. “Do not fear the threats of security forces. Refer to independent counsel. Make your children’s names public,” it said in a statement.
A spokesman for the council said Sunday that it has documented the deaths of at least 200 minors who were killed in the crackdown. That figure is up several dozen from the count just days before.
“Every day we tell ourselves this is the last list,” Mohammad Habibi wrote on X. “But the next morning, new names arrive again.”
Bar associations and medical groups have also spoken out, including Iran’s state-sanctioned doctors’ council, which called on authorities to stop harassing medical staff.
Iran’s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi called for a “global day of action” on Saturday, urging supporters to take to the streets in Munich, Los Angeles and Toronto to push for “urgent, practical steps in support of the Iranian people.”
Reza Pahlavi, son of the former Iranian Shah, attends a press conference at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday Feb. 14, 2026. Marijan Murat/dpa via AP
“We gather at an hour of profound peril to ask: Will the world stand with the people of Iran?” Pahlvai said in a news conference in Munich on Saturday. An annual security conference of global security figures and European leaders is taking place in the German city this weekend. Police told the AFP that about 200,000 people attended a protest in Munich.
Pahlvai, who is the son of Iran’s deposed shah and is trying to position himself as a player in Iran’s future, warned of the likelihood of more deaths in Iran “if democracies stand by and watch.” He added that the continued survival of the Iranian government “sends a clear signal to every bully: kill enough people and you stay in power.”
Anger over the bloodshed now adds to the bitterness over the economy, which has been hollowed out by decades of sanctions, corruption and mismanagement. The value of the currency has plunged, and inflation has climbed to record levels.
The Iranian government has announced gestures such as launching a new coupon program for essential goods. Labor and trade groups, including a national retirees syndicate, have issued statements condemning the economic and political crisis.
Iran and the United States
President Donald Trump has moved an aircraft carrier and other military assets to the Persian Gulf and suggested the U.S. could attack Iran over the killing of peaceful demonstrators or if Tehran launches mass executions over the protests. A second American aircraft carrier is on its way to the Mideast.
Iran’s theocracy has faced down protests and U.S. threats in the past, and the crackdown showed the iron grip it holds over the country. This week, authorities organized pro-government rallies with hundreds of thousands of people to mark the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Still, Barzin said, he sees the ferocity of the crackdown as a sign that Iran’s leadership “for the first time is afraid of being overthrown.”