HRANA – Mehregan Namavar, a poet from Dehdasht, was arrested by security forces in the city on Sunday, July 5, and her whereabouts remain unknown.

According to HRANA, Mehregan Namavar has now been held in detention for nine days. A source close to her family told HRANA that Ms. Namavar was arrested at her home in Dehdasht on July 5 by security agents. Since then, her family has received no information regarding her fate.

At the time of writing, the reasons for her arrest and the location where she is being held remain unknown.

Her arrest came despite the fact that she had been instructed to report to the Kohgiluyeh Prosecutor’s Office Sentence Enforcement Branch on July 15 to begin serving her prison sentence.

In March 2026, Ms. Namavar was sentenced by Branch 102 of the Criminal Court Two of Kohgiluyeh County to two years of discretionary imprisonment on the charge of spreading falsehoods online with the intent to disturb public opinion. In another part of her case, the Revolutionary Court of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, sitting in Kohgiluyeh County, sentenced her to one year in prison on charges of attempting to disrupt national security and inciting killings through disturbing public opinion.

Ms. Namavar had previously been arrested by security forces in Dehdasht in March 2025. She was released on bail some time later.

Mehregan Namavar, aged approximately 39, is the mother of one daughter and a poet from Dehdasht.