{"id":84031,"date":"2026-04-26T09:06:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/84031\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:06:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:06:48","slug":"prominent-iranian-veterinarian-and-activist-iman-memarian-arrested-in-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/84031\/","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Iranian veterinarian and activist Iman Memarian arrested in Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Iranian authorities have arrested Iman Memarian, a veterinarian and environmental activist, in Tehran and transferred him to an undisclosed location. <br \/>&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>According to information obtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Iranian government forces raided Memarian\u2019s workplace in Tehran on Monday, April 21, 2026, and took him into custody,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hengaw.net\/en\/news\/2026\/04\/article-80\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hengaw.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Memarian is a graduate of the University of Tehran and has been active for years in the field of wildlife conservation.<\/p>\n<p>People close to him said he suffers from an underlying medical condition and requires continuous care and regular medication.<\/p>\n<p>Several days after his <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/world-leaders-condemned-shocking-shooting-attack-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrest<\/a>, no information has been made available regarding his place of detention, the authority responsible for the arrest or any charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts by his family and colleagues to obtain information have so far been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/leyla-sirinova\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Leyla  \u015eirinova<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iranian authorities have arrested Iman Memarian, a veterinarian and environmental activist, in Tehran and transferred him to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3538,30007,30006,34,419,69,23933],"class_list":{"0":"post-84031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-environmental-activist","10":"tag-iman-memarian","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-iranian-authorities","13":"tag-tehran","14":"tag-university-of-tehran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116470221516827945","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}