The Ministry of Intelligence in Shahriar, Tehran Province, summoned four family members of Erfan Khazaei, one of the victims of last year’s anti-government protests, by telephone on 9 September.
Erfan Khazaei, from Kangavar, Kermanshah Province, who lived in Shahriar, was shot dead by the military-security forces during the anti-government protests in Shahriar on 21 September 2022.
In recent weeks, the state security and judicial institutions have increased pressure on the families of the victims of the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising ahead of the anniversary of the killing of Jina Mahsa Amini by the government.
The families have been threatened not to publish any calls to organise events to mark the anniversary.
Some of the family members who have been summoned, threatened, or arrested in recent weeks in Quchan, Piranshahr, Karaj, Saqqez, and Mahabad are: Safa Aeli, the uncle of Jina Mahsa Amini; Reza Babrnezhad, the brother of Mehdi Babrnezhad; Hassan Daroftadeh and Mardin Daroftadeh, the father and brother of Komar Daroftadeh; Mashallah Karami, the father of Mohammad Mehdi Karami; Sharmin Habibi, the wife of Fereydoun Mahmoudi; Abdollah Aboubakri, the father of Zanyar Aboubakri; and Shahrouz Hosseinpouri, the brother of Azad Hosseinpouri.
Security and judicial forces have also carried out widespread summonses and arrests of the families of the victims in other cities in Iran.
