Designating the IRGC as Terrorists Without Saving the Uprising Prisoners is Incomplete Justice

While it is widely recognized that the statistics provided by the clerical regime regarding the massacre of the January 2026 uprising represent only the “tip of the iceberg,” and while official state media reported 3,117 deaths, estimates suggest the true death toll across Iran could be much higher. Similarly, when the FARAJA Security Police officially claim only 327 arrests as of late January (Defa Press, January 29, 2026), one can only imagine the true scale of detainees whose arrests have not been officially recorded anywhere.

While reliable reports indicate that certain hospitals under the supervision of regime-affiliated individuals—such as the Noor Eye Hospital on Valiasr Street, Tehran, owned by Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi (former Minister of Health under Hassan Rouhani)—have been transformed into intelligence outposts for the regime to identify and arrest wounded protesters, a grave violation of medical neutrality.

While sources inside Iran report the clandestine transfer of hundreds of protesters to Qezel Hesar Prison—a facility notorious for carrying out death sentences with currently, approximately 500 individuals being held in the “Quarantine Unit 2” of this prison without any official record, without contact with their families, and deprived of the most basic human rights.

While the machinery of death continues to target the detained protesters by death sentences:

Shervin Bagherian, an 18-year-old protester, has been sentenced to death on charges of ” Enmity against God (Moharebeh)” and the alleged killing of four Basij members, following forced confessions extracted under brutal torture.

Omid Ara, a detainee from Yasuj, is at imminent risk of execution. His family has been notified that his sentence has been formally communicated and will be carried out shortly.

Amin Parvar-Farhang, a chemical engineering graduate from Sharif University and a Pharmacy student at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, was arrested in Shirvan and faces a death sentence without ever having a lawyer access to his case file.

Amir-Mohammad Mojallal-Joubari, a 22-year-old protester, has been sentenced to death following a trial that lacked any semblance of due process. His confessions were obtained under extreme pressure, and murder charges were filed against him without independent or verifiable evidence.

Alireza Lotfi is among a large number of youths recently abducted from their private homes during raids by IRGC intelligence forces in Chermin, Central (Markazi) Province. These individuals were taken to undisclosed locations without judicial warrants, and a death sentence was hastily issued for him.

Finally, while it has taken years for the blood of thousands of Iranians to wake the world’s conscience, leading to the European Union’s designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, this is not enough.

We call the international community, the European Union, and all human rights assemblies to take the following actions:

• The immediate deployment of an International Fact-Finding Mission to conduct unconditional inspections of Unit 2 of Qezel Hesar Prison and all other official or unofficial detention centers to identify “disappeared” and unrecorded detainees.
• The immediate suspension of all death sentences for Shervin Bagherian, Omid Ara, Amin Parvar-Farhang, and all other protesters, due to the nullity of judicial proceedings and confessions obtained under torture.
• An end to the impunity of medical professionals and centers complicit with the regime (such as Noor Hospital) and the inclusion of their officials on human rights sanction lists.
• The expulsion of the regime’s ambassadors and diplomats by the European Union until the total cessation of the execution machine. Terrorist designation without concrete action to free prisoners is only a half-measure.
• International pressure to compel the Tehran regime to release all 50,000 detainees of the uprising as well as all other political prisoners.
• The referral of the file on street massacres and extrajudicial executions (for which Ali Khamenei bears ultimate responsibility) directly to the United Nations Security Council.