{"id":331264,"date":"2025-05-07T11:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=331264"},"modified":"2025-05-07T11:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:11:37","slug":"irans-regime-admits-to-90000-youth-arrests-a-generation-under-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/irans-regime-admits-to-90000-youth-arrests-a-generation-under-siege\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Regime Admits to 90,000 Youth Arrests: A Generation Under Siege\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iranian regime’s Judiciary Chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei (middle) talks with other judicial officials at a meeting \u2014 May 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In a startling admission, the Iranian regime\u2019s Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei revealed that 90,000 students, schoolchildren, teachers, and ordinary citizens were prosecuted in the wake of the 2022 protests. Speaking to state media, Ejei stated, \u201cIn 2022, around 90,000 cases were filed\u2026 these included students, schoolchildren, teachers, men, women, and individuals from all walks of life.\u201d He warned ominously: \u201cAny individual summoned, convicted, or imprisoned can be exploited by the enemy.\u201d This confession lays bare a regime that sees an entire generation as a threat to its survival.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to state-run Tasnim News<\/a>, Ejei emphasized that the judiciary worked with seminaries, Basij militias, universities, and educators to facilitate \u201cpardons\u201d for many detainees. \u201cThrough dialogue with the accused, opportunities were created to request pardons,\u201d he said. Yet, beneath the rhetoric of leniency lies a darker reality: the Iranian regime has systematically rounded up tens of thousands of young people and educators in an unprecedented dragnet.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ejei clarified<\/a> that \u201capart from a small number who committed dangerous or organizational acts, many were pardoned and no criminal record was left for the students.\u201d But his own words betray the regime\u2019s deeper fear: that those who remain imprisoned are precisely the ones deemed ideologically contaminated\u2014linked to the opposition movement, the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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#Iran<\/a> News: Regime Moves to Indoctrinate #Students<\/a> as Tehran Frets Over Role of Youth in Uprisingshttps:\/\/t.co\/X1zDl2IPCM<\/a><\/p>\n

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