Hajer Saeidi, a labor and women’s rights activist from Sanandaj, has served 7 months and 7 days of her one-year prison sentence in the women’s ward of Sanandaj prison. According to Kolbarnews, Hajer Saeidi was arrested on May 18, 2023, by Sanandaj Intelligence officers while visiting the family of Hooman […]
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Atefeh Rangriz, a writer, translator, and women’s rights activist, was arrested and transferred to Shahroud prison following a court session addressing her charges. According to Kolbarnews, on Saturday, June 29, 2024, Atefeh Rangriz, a writer, translator, and women’s rights activist, was arrested. The report states that after the court session […]
In a traffic accident involving a pickup truck carrying female agricultural workers in Dezful, Khuzestan Province, seven people were injured. According to Kolbarnews, on the morning of Tuesday, June 4, 2024, a pickup truck carrying agricultural workers on the road leading to Chahar Rah Avoj in Dezful, Khuzestan Province, seven […]
Six months after her arrest, the date for the court session to address the charges against labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi has been set. According to Kolbarnews, after six months of detention and uncertainty, Sharifeh Mohammadi, a labor activist held in the quarantine ward of Lakan Prison in Rasht, will have […]
Zahra Nabizadeh, a female activist from Mahabad, has been re-arrested after being summoned by phone to the city’s Intelligence Office. According to Kolbarnews, on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, Zahra Nabizadeh was arrested following a phone summons to the Intelligence Office in Mahabad. Previously, she had been arrested by security forces […]
Following a road accident on the way to the workplace of tomato-picking workers in Dehdasht, two female workers lost their lives and three others were injured. According to Kolbarnews, on Thursday, May 30, 2024, in a traffic accident on the Dehdasht to Behbahan road, two female workers who were on […]
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 […]
Jina Modares-Gorji, a civil activist from Sanandaj, has been sentenced to a total of 21 years in prison by the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj, presided over by Judge Karami. According to Kolbarnews, the Sanandaj Islamic Revolutionary Court convicted Jina Modares-Gorji, a journalist and women’s rights activist, on several charges: […]
The Coordination Council of Teachers’ Unions issued a statement highlighting a disturbing event where the mayor of Zanjan visited a Quranic school. During this visit, school officials forced girls to wear mandatory hijabs and bow deeply to the mayor, resembling handmaidens honoring their master. The statement correctly points out that […]
The Statistical Center of Iran, in an official report, announced an increase in the unemployment rate among young women in 20 provinces of the country. This statistic contradicts the government’s claim of reducing the unemployment rate in the country. According to Kolbarnews, the unemployment rate among women aged 15 to […]