Monireh Arabshahi
Monireh Arabshahi is an Iranian women’s rights defender who was arrested in early April 2019 after taking off her hijab in a women-only carriage of the Tehran metro
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Mahsa Amini
Mahsa Amini was a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish citizen who died as a result of police brutality in custody on 16 September 2022. While visiting her family in Tehran on
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Ali Alinejad
Ali Alinejad is the brother of Iranian‑American women’s rights defender Masih Alinejad and a non‑activist civilian detained by Iranian authorities in reprisal for
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Masih Alinejad
Masih Alinejad is an Iranian‑American journalist, writer and women’s rights activist who fled Iran in 2009 and now lives in exile in New York. She holds a
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Sasan Aghaei
Sasan Aghaei is an Iranian reformist journalist and political columnist who serves as deputy editor of the daily Etemad. He was arrested at his office in Tehran on 12
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Raheleh Ahmadi
Raheleh Ahmadi is an Iranian women’s rights defender and mother of activist Saba Kord Afshari who participated in the White Wednesdays campaign by removing her hijab
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Mojgan Keshavarz
Mojgan Keshavarz is an Iranian women’s rights defender who was arrested on 25 April 2019 after distributing flowers to women in the Tehran metro on International
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GCHR launches 2023 Annual Report on Human Rights in the Middle East Region
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has launched its 2023 annual report “Human Rights in the Middle East Region”, which summarises GCHR’s activities
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi remains in prison along with many women’s rights activists
Update: Journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi were sentenced to 13 and 12 years in prison in Iran respectively on several charges. Hamedi received seven
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