Fresh reports reveal that Sudabeh Asadi, an inmate jailed on financial charges, died at Qarchak Prison in Varamin, on Tuesday,| NCRI Women Committee
In recent days, a new wave of labor and sectoral protests has swept across Iran—from teachers and applicants for the national education recruitment exam to healthcare and medical staff. The common thread running through all these demonstrations is the demand for justice, equality, and an end to officials’ indifference toward basic professional and economic rights. […]| NCRI Women Committee
On Wednesday, September 30, 2025, thirty political prisoners held in Tehran’s Evin Prison issued a joint statement condemning the “inhuman conditions” faced by female political prisoners in Qarchak Prison, Varamin. The signatories held the death of political prisoner Somayeh Rashidi directly accountable to the negligence and incompetence of the Iranian judiciary and prison authorities, demanding […]| NCRI Women Committee
On Tuesday, September 30, 2025, prisoners in 52 Iranian prisons launched the 88th week of their anti-death penalty hunger strike in protest of the escalating wave of executions and the issuance of new death sentences. Meanwhile, families of death-row political prisoners and anti-death penalty activists took to the streets and carried out their acts of […]| NCRI Women Committee
On Monday, September 29, nineteen female political prisoners held in Qarchak Prison, Varamin, announced a two-day hunger strike beginning on Monday. The hunger strike follows the death of their fellow inmate, Somayeh Rashidi, and protests the authorities’ negligence, lack of accountability for the recurring deaths of inmates, and the authorities’ refusal to transfer female political […]| NCRI Women Committee