In late January 2025, Bijan Kazemi, Arghavan Fallahi, Amirhossein Akbari-Monfared, and Mohammad Ali Akbari-Monfared were each separately arrested, but a common scenario by Iran’s regime security apparatus linked them together: the killing of two senior judges of the Supreme Court, Mohammad Moghiseh and Ali Razini, who were reportedly shot in their offices at the Supreme Court building by a janitor on the morning of Saturday, January 18, 2025.
For over eight months, these citizens have remained in limbo without any evidence, documentation, or even confessions.
Recently, Bijan Kazemi’s hunger strike forced the authorities to transfer him from a safe house in Qom to Ward 7, Hall 1 of Evin Prison.
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Bijan Kazemi, a 44-year-old citizen from Kuhdasht, had previously been arrested in his hometown in 2020 and sentenced by the Revolutionary Court to three and a half years in prison on stereotypical charges. He served two years of this sentence in Khorramabad Prison, one of Iran’s most deprived facilities, before completing the rest under electronic monitoring outside prison. On January 19, just one day after the killing of the notorious Supreme Court judges Moghiseh and Razini, Bijan was noisily arrested in Kuhdasht.
Arghavan Fallahi, a 25-year-old woman, had previously been arrested along with her father and brother during the nationwide protests of 2022. She was arrested again in late January 2025. Arghavan spent more than four months in solitary confinement in Ward 241 of Evin Prison without any charges. Immediately after her arrest, her father, who has been imprisoned since 2022, was also placed in solitary confinement for renewed interrogations. This raised concerns about further fabricated cases against the father and daughter.
Mohammad Ali Akbari-Monfared, father of Amirhossein and of well-known political prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared, is himself a former political prisoner from the 1980s. He and his family have repeatedly been harassed over the years. His daughter Maryam was arrested in 2009 on the charge of “enmity against God through membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK)” and sentenced to 15 years in prison. As her term neared completion, she was given an additional two years while still behind bars.
Amirhossein, a 22-year-old young man, was arrested at his home in Karaj on January 19, 2025, following the killing of Razini and Moghiseh. A few days later, on January 21, his father Mohammad Ali was also arrested. Mohammad Ali, now 85 years old, has poor conditions in prison, and because he suffers from a leg disability, his son staged a hunger strike in protest at his father’s situation.
According to the Iran Human Rights Society, on August 27, 2025, Amirhossein went on a hunger strike in Fashafuyeh Prison in protest of his father’s condition, as at that time his father had been transferred from prison to Shohada Tajrish Hospital.
Arghavan Fallahi has been charged with assembly and collusion and propaganda against the regime. Her father remains in prison and under pressure. Authorities have denied Arghavan her psychiatric medication. She has become very thin, and prison officials have not allowed her mother to bring her any clothing, leaving her without proper clothes to wear.
Regarding Bijan Kazemi, the judiciary of Iran’s regime has only two words: he will not be released. No reasons are given, nor are his family or lawyer provided with further explanations. About two months ago, his lawyer—who is not even allowed access to the case file—was told only that “further investigation is needed.”
Ms. Khosravi, Bijan Kazemi’s mother, has previously written that neither Bijan himself, nor she as his mother, nor his lawyer are aware of the charges against him. This appears to be in violation of legal procedures and seems intended to give interrogators free rein for further fabricated scenarios.
