Security forces arrested Farshid Ghorbanipour, a journalist and owner of the online bookshop Soren Book, his wife announced on September 25, amid a crackdown on media workers.
Security agents raided the couple’s home after breaking the door, beat them and took Ghorbanipour to an unknown place, according to his wife, Somayeih Nouroozi.
They also sprayed pepper spray the presence of their young child.
Iran has been gripped by protests demanding more freedoms and women's rights since the September death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, in the custody of Tehran’s morality police.
There have since been Internet blackouts across the country, restrictions on search engines, and interference in social media activity.
Journalists have been prevented from doing their jobs by their own editors as well as Islamic Republic officials.
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