Atena Daemi
Woman human rights defender Atena Daemi was sentenced to seven years in prison on 29 September 2016 with three other people on charges of “assembly and collusion
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Sattar Beheshti
Sattar Beheshti was an Iranian blogger born in August 1977 who was known for openly criticizing the Iranian government on social media, especially Facebook. He was
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Maziar Bahari
Maziar Bahari is an Iranian‑Canadian journalist, documentary filmmaker and human rights defender. As a Newsweek correspondent, he was arrested at his home on 21 June
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Emadeddin Baghi
Emadeddin Baghi is an Iranian journalist, theologian, writer and prisoners’ rights defender born on 25 April 1962 in Shahreza, Isfahan Province. He is the
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Yasaman Aryani
Yasaman Aryani is an Iranian women’s rights defender who in early April 2019 boarded a women‑only carriage of the Tehran metro without her hijab and distributed
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