Simin Chaychi, Marziyeh Moradveysi, and Fatemeh Zandkarimi, three civil activists from the city of Sanandaj, were summoned to the Intelligence Office and interrogated. According to Kolbarnews, on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, Simin Chaychi, a well-known Kurdish poet and civil activist, Fatemeh Zandkarimi, an activist in the teachers’ movement, and Marziyeh […]
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Nasrin Javadi (Azam Khezri Javadi), a labor activist and member of the Free Union of Iranian Workers, has been released from Qarchak Prison in Varamin. According to Kolbarnews, quoting the Free Union of Iranian Workers, on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, Nasrin Javadi (Azam Khezri Javadi) was released from Qarchak Prison. […]
Bafrin Maroufi, a citizen from Bukan, has been released from Urmia Prison after serving more than three months of her sentence. She had previously been sentenced to four months and seven days in prison and was transferred to Urmia Prison on Sunday, May 25, 2025. According to Kolbarnews, on Tuesday, […]
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has issued an urgent appeal expressing grave concern over the imminent risk of execution faced by Sharifeh Mohammadi, a prominent Iranian woman human rights defender and labor activist. According to Kolbarnews and the GCHR statement, published on August 30, 2025, Sharifeh Mohammadi’s case […]
Reyhaneh Ansarinejad, a labor activist and a member of the Coordination Committee to Help Form Workers’ Organizations, has been released from Qarchak Varamin Prison after serving two years in prison. According to Kolbarnews, quoting the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations, on the morning of Saturday, September 6, 2025, […]
Farzaneh Rashidi, a student from the city of Baneh, was released from Saqqez Central Prison after two months of detention by posting bail of 1.5 billion tomans. According to Kolbarnews, on Sunday, July 27, 2025, Farzaneh Rashidi, a 26-year-old student at Payam Noor University in Baneh, was temporarily released from […]
During the 46 years of the Islamic Republic regime, the oppression of women in this society and the struggle against this oppression, alongside the struggles of workers for their trampled basic rights, have always been central themes of an extensive social conflict. Opposition parties and political groups, as well as […]
Sepideh Qolian, labor activist and political prisoner, released after more than two years of imprisonment According to Kolbarnews, on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, Sepideh Qolian, a labor activist and prominent figure in Iran’s civil movements, was released from Evin Prison after serving her sentence. She spent a total of two […]
Three residents of Urmia were arrested by security forces during a nighttime raid and taken to an undisclosed location. According to Kolbarnews, on the evening of Monday, May 26, 2025, Raena Khorran and Rozhan Khorran, two sisters from Urmia, along with their uncle Jalal Farrokhi, residents of the “Ziveh Margavar” […]
A court session to review the charges against Leyla Pashaei and Baran Saedi, women’s rights activists in the city of Sanandaj, was held in Branch 2 of the Revolutionary Court of this city. According to Kolbarnews, on Monday, May 26, 2025, a court session was held to address the charges […]