Kianush Sanjari (Persian: کیانوش سنجری; 11 September 1982 – 13 November 2024) was an Iranian journalist and activist.

In 2016, Sanjari returned to Iran to care for his aging mother, after several years of working with Persian-language media abroad.

[7][8] But just a few days after arriving in Tehran, he was arrested by intelligence ministry agents and taken to Ward 209 at Evin Prison.

In early 2019, after serving three years of his sentence, Sanjari fell sick and the prison doctor ruled that he must be granted a medical leave of absence.

on medical furlough, but was required to regularly present himself at Evin Prison, reporting to the office responsible for monitoring people convicted or charged with security offenses.

[11] After being arrested and taken to solitary confinement in Evin Prison, he allegedly experienced white torture and commented: "I feel that solitary confinement - which wages war on the soul and mind of a person - can be the most inhuman form of white torture for people like me, who are arrested solely for [defending] citizens' rights.