Shocking charges against jailed women’s rights activists, who must be released amid second COVID-19 peak
Update: Iran: WHRD Narges Mohammadi, 48, was released from prison at 3am on 08 October 2020 after a 10-year sentence was commuted due to health concerns. She was in
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Around 4000 people arrested and over 140 killed as protests continue amidst Internet shutdown
Iran has cracked down viciously against widescale protests that began after a 50% fuel hike on 15 November 2019, with news reports putting the death toll over 140 and
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Take Action: Release Women’s Rights Defenders and Feminist Activists of Iran’s #WhiteWednesdays Campaign!
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) calls for the release of four women human rights defenders (WHRDs) who have been arrested by agents of the Ministry of
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Targeting family members of WHRDs to silence feminist voices
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is dismayed by reports of the recent arrest of Ali Alinejad, who is the brother of prominent human rights
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Women Human Rights Defenders ailing in prison as a result of solitary confinement and hunger strikes
Update: On 15 July, 2019 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was transferred to the psychiatric ward of Imam Khomeini hospital. She was handcuffed to the bed and held
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Women’s rights activist Mojgan Keshzvarz transferred to Qarchak Town Prison
On 26 June 2019, women’s rights activist Mozhgan (Maya) Keshavarz was suddenly sent to Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court and a hearing was held without the presence
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Prominent Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh sentenced to 38 years in Prison
On 11 March 2019, human rights defender Reza Khandan posted on his facebook page that, “Nasrin’s sentence in relation to her last cases has been informed to her in
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Human rights defender Reza Khandan released, while Nasrin Sotoudeh and Farhad Meysami remain in prison after ending hunger strikes
Human rights defender Reza Khandan, the husband of imprisoned human-rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, was released from prison in Iran on 23 December 2018, his lawyer
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Abdolfattah Soltani released while other human rights defenders continue to suffer in prison for defending women’s rights
Photo: Abdolfattah Soltani with his family, including daughter Homa (at right), who passed away in August. The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) welcomes the news
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