Zahra Dadras, a women’s rights activist, has been temporarily released from Lakan Prison in Rasht. According to Kolbarnews, on Wednesday, August 28, 2024, Zahra Dadras was granted leave from Lakan Prison in Rasht to undergo medical treatment. Zahra Dadras was initially arrested by security forces in August 2023 and was […]
Gilan
Five women activists from Gilan have been sentenced to a total of 23 years in prison by the Revolutionary Court of Rasht. According to Kolbarnews, on Monday, August 12, 2024, Nina Golestani, Rozita Rajayi, Anahita Hajazi, Negin Edalatkhah, and Anahita Dustdar were each sentenced by the Third Branch of the […]
The judiciary of the Islamic Republic has sentenced Pakhshan Azizi, a women’s rights activist and social worker in Kurdistan, to death, following the earlier death sentence of Sharifeh Mohammadi, a labor activist in Gilan. Pakhshan Azizi, an educated social worker and political activist from Mahabad, was first arrested on November […]
Following the end of the sham presidential elections, pressure on civil activists, especially women’s movement activists, has increased. The Islamic Republic, reeling from the heavy blow of the “Election Boycott Movement” and seeing the threat of widespread public anger, has resorted to retaliatory actions against civil movement activists and even […]
Matin Yazdani, a women’s rights activist, has been granted medical leave from Lakan Prison in Rasht. According to Kolbarnews, Matin Yazdani was granted medical leave until July 20, 2024. She, along with Forough Sami’nia, Jelveh Javaheri, Negin Rezaei, Shiva Shah-Siah, and Azadeh Chavoshian, had been arrested and transferred to Lakan […]
A group of women’s rights activists from Gilan have been sent to prison to serve their sentences. According to Kolbarnews, on the morning of Tuesday, July 13, 2024, Jaleh Javaheri, Forough Saminia, Shiva Shahsiah, Negin Rezaei, and Azadeh Chavoshian, women’s rights activists, were sent to Lakan Prison in Rasht to […]
Zohreh Dadras and Zahra Dadras, women’s rights activists in Gilan, have been arrested and transferred to Lakan Prison in Rasht to serve their prison sentences. According to Kolbarnews, on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, Zohreh Dadras and Zahra Dadras were detained. Abolfazl Ghorbani, the lawyer representing these two women’s rights activists, […]
Branch One of the Revolutionary Court in Rasht has sentenced labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi to death on charges of “rebellion.” According to Kolbarnews, on Thursday, July 4, 2023, Branch One of the Revolutionary Court in Rasht sentenced labor and civil activist Sharifeh Mohammadi to death on charges of “rebellion.” Mohammadi […]
The Revolutionary Appeal Court in Rasht has upheld sentences totaling more than 60 years in prison for Gilan’s women’s rights activists. According to Kolbarnews, on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, Branch 11 of the Rasht Revolutionary Appeal Court, presided over by Judge Mohammad Sadegh Iran Aqideh, confirmed the prison sentences without […]
Sharifeh Mohammadi, a labor activist, remains in indefinite detention at Lakan Prison in Rasht more than 160 days after her arrest. According to Kolbarnews, Sharifeh Mohammadi is still in custody. Despite the passage of 166 days since her arrest, she remains in an uncertain state in the quarantine ward of Lakan […]