Ban on Visits in Qarchak Prison -Female Political Prisoners
In recent weeks, a number of female political prisoners held in Qarchak Prison, Varamin, have been denied in-person visits with| NCRI Women Committee
In recent weeks, a number of female political prisoners held in Qarchak Prison, Varamin, have been denied in-person visits with| NCRI Women Committee
Sorayya Abolfathi, an only child, was born in 1961 to a wealthy family in Tabriz, Iran. A deeply compassionate and| NCRI Women Committee
Soghra Khodadadi’s Dark Record at Qarchak Prison: From Beatings and Forced Veiling to Medical Deprivation and International Sanctions Qarchak Prison| NCRI Women Committee
A Crime in Progress: The Looming Threat of Another Massacre of Political Prisoners in Iran Executive Summary July 2025 Report:| NCRI Women Committee
Raheleh Rahemipour, a 72-year-old political prisoner, remains detained in Qarchak Prison under life-threatening conditions, as medical and judicial authorities have| NCRI Women Committee
Political prisoner Elaheh Fouladi, 47, faces escalating pressure and a new campaign by security forces in Qarchak Prison to be transferred to a psychiatric hospital. Prison authorities recently transferred Elaheh Fouladi in handcuffs and shackles to a hospital, where an order was issued for her compulsory admission to a psychiatric facility, an act that constitutes […]| NCRI Women Committee
More than a week after their arrest, Razieh Hassanzadeh and Asiyeh Kaykhah, both from Zabol, in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, remain in legal limbo in the quarantine ward of Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad. The two 37-year-old women were detained by security forces on Tuesday, August 22, while filming and singing at the gravesite of Majidreza […]| NCRI Women Committee
Report to the UN Beijing+25 ForumDownload The Plight of Women in Iran - A Report to the UN Beijing+25 Forum| NCRI Women Committee
This episode of the NCRI Women’s Committee podcast highlights the pervasive and systemic nature of the Iranian regime's repression against| NCRI Women Committee
The sister of death-row political prisoner in Iran, Akbar Daneshvarkar (Shahrokh), has released an emotional video appeal demanding urgent action| NCRI Women Committee
Shiva Esmaeli, a political prisoner and mother of three, has been sentenced to ten years in prison by Tehran’s Revolutionary| NCRI Women Committee
Summer 2025 has turned Qarchak Prison into a stark symbol of systemic cruelty and human rights violations against Iran’s female| NCRI Women Committee
The Iranian regime’s Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Sharifeh Mohammadi, a Kurdish political prisoner held in Lakan| NCRI Women Committee
February 24, 2025– Massoumeh Asgari, an imprisoned teacher and political activist, has been sentenced to three years in prison by| NCRI Women Committee
On Saturday, May 11, political prisoner Massoumeh Nassaji (Farah), started a hunger strike, refusing food, water, and medicine, to draw| NCRI Women Committee
Political prisoner Arghavan Fallahi has been transferred to Qarchak Prison, following months of solitary confinement and torture. Arghavan Fallahi, a| NCRI Women Committee
The life of Maryam Akbari Monfared is in grave danger in Qarchak Prison, in Varamin. Insecurity and denial of medical| NCRI Women Committee
Fatemeh Ziaii, a 68-year-old political prisoner was arrested for the seventh time. On Wednesday morning, August 6, 2025, Iranian security| NCRI Women Committee
On Tuesday, August 12, 2025, political prisoner Raheleh Rahemipour, a member of the 1980s justice-seeking families, was transferred from Qarchak| NCRI Women Committee
On Tuesday, August 12, 2025, Raheleh Rahemipour, a 72-year-old prisoner seeking justice, detained in Qarchak Prison, in Varamin, fell due| NCRI Women Committee
NOTE: If you regularly send packets to Ronald Reed, his mail now gets routed through a third party, for-profit, vendor:| Kersplebedeb
Between January and May 2025, Iranian authorities executed at least 76 Baloch prisoners, according to human rights reports. The wave| Zamaneh Media
Nasrin Hassani Jailed in Unfavorable Conditions Nasrin Hassani, a journalist and political prisoner, is being held in Bojnord Prison without| NCRI Women Committee
Nasrin Hassani, the managing editor of Siyahat-e Sharq weekly publication, was summoned on Sunday, February 4, 2024, to serve her| NCRI Women Committee
In a disturbing escalation of pressure on families of political prisoners, Iranian security forces have taken Leila Saremi hostage to| NCRI Women Committee
On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, families of political prisoners sentenced to death once again staged a protest outside Tehran’s Evin| NCRI Women Committee
Women Political prisoners recently transferred from Evin Prison to Qarchak Prison in Varamin are being held under dire, inhumane, and| NCRI Women Committee
Forough Khosravi, an elementary school teacher with a PhD in Education, was arrested on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, in the| NCRI Women Committee
On Sunday July 27, 2025, two political prisoners, Massoumeh Asgari, a retired teacher, and Massoumeh Nassaji (Farah), were sent to| NCRI Women Committee
Sara Gowhari, an Afghan student at University of Tehran was transferred from Intelligence Ministry’s detention center in Mashhad to Torbat-e| NCRI Women Committee
On July 27, 2025, the Iranian regime executed two political prisoners—Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani—in silence and without due process,| NCRI Women Committee
"He writes with passion, sensitivity and somehow retains his composure even in face of the worst details of the story he is telling."| Writers Review
Two and a half months after her arrest, Arghavan Fallahi remains in limbo at Evin Prison. She has been subjected| NCRI Women Committee
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support. If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner, please let us …| Kersplebedeb
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates.| Kersplebedeb
In the 78th consecutive week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign, prisoners across 48 prisons in Iran launched coordinated| NCRI Women Committee
A group of female political prisoners supporting the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, detained in Qarchak Prison, sent out a| NCRI Women Committee
As the Persian New Year begins, the families of political prisoners on death row, Vahid Bani Amerian and Pouya Ghobadi,| NCRI Women Committee
The souls of the victims’ relatives were massacred simultaneously with their loved ones Ebrahim Raisi, the architect of the massacre| NCRI Women Committee
The final days of July every year mark the start of the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran| NCRI Women Committee
Annual Report 2021Download As women around the world are starting a new year on March 8, International Women’s Day, we| NCRI Women Committee
A female prisoner dies in Sepidar Prison after being abandoned without treatment One of the common practices of the clerical| NCRI Women Committee
Every year on August 30, the world marks the International Day of the Victims of Forced Disappearances, a somber occasion| NCRI Women Committee
On the anniversary of the bloody crackdown on the student uprising of July 9, 1999, a group of women political| NCRI Women Committee
June 20 marks the beginning of the Iranian people's resistance for freedom and democracy in 1981. Iran’s women pioneer their| NCRI Women Committee
More than two weeks after her arrest, Fariba Hosseini, a 36-year-old dentist based in Shiraz, remains in complete legal uncertainty.| NCRI Women Committee
Political prisoner Massoumeh Senobari was brutally beaten and severely bruised by prison officials in Fardis Prison in Karaj, on Sunday,| NCRI Women Committee
Several days after political prisoner Arghavan Fallahi was transferred from Ward 209 of Evin Prison to an undisclosed location, her| NCRI Women Committee
Qarchak Prison in Varamin, known as the largest women’s prison in Iran, has become a symbol of systemic human rights| NCRI Women Committee
Following the destruction of the administrative and entry facilities of Evin Prison on June 23, some 70 female political prisoners| NCRI Women Committee
Political prisoner Narges Mansouri has been sentenced to three years of prison on charges leveled against her during her detention.| NCRI Women Committee
If you regularly send packets to Oso Blanco, he has been transferred:| Kersplebedeb
Nearly two months after her arrest, Maryam Delbari — a writer and former head of the Abadan Art Bureau —| NCRI Women Committee
Arghavan Fallahi is under torture to make false confessions against herself Call to Save Political Prisoners in Iran - The| NCRI Women Committee
A Look at the Female Political Prisoners Deprived of Medical Care December 10, International Human Rights Day, serves as a| NCRI Women Committee
Azar Karvandi Musazadeh reported to Evin Prison on Sunday, July 30, 2023, to serve her five years. The 24th branch| NCRI Women Committee
Azar Korvandi Mousazadeh, a political prisoner currently held in Qarchak Prison in Varamin, is in critical condition due to worsening| NCRI Women Committee
women prisoners: In the 70th week of the nationwide campaign “No to Execution Tuesdays” political prisoners in the women’s ward| NCRI Women Committee
Female political prisoners in the women's ward of Tehran's Evin Prison joined the nationwide campaign "No to Executions Tuesdays," again,| NCRI Women Committee
From a book by Hengameh Haj Hassan, Part 2 Face to Face with the Beast: In the previous installment of| NCRI Women Committee
The Iranian Resistance has obtained new information on the whereabouts of Arghavan Fallahi, a 25-year-old woman, and three other political| NCRI Women Committee
Narges Mansouri, a political prisoner currently held in Qarchak Prison in Varamin, has gone on a hunger strike following her| NCRI Women Committee
Antonio Hunter spent years dealing with a painful, embarrassing, and dangerous medical problem while the corporate executives who control healthcare at Pickneyville Correctional denied him surgery. EAST ST. LOUIS, Il. — Yesterday afternoon, after four days of emotional testimony, an eight-person federal jury voted to award Antonio Hunter $5 million in damages for the years […] The post PRESS RELEASE: Pickneyville Prisoner Denied Surgery is Awarded $5 Million by Federal Jury appeared first...| Loevy + Loevy
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates.| Kersplebedeb
Following the execution of political prisoner Mojahid Kourkour, political prisoners in the women’s ward and Ward 4 of Evin Prison| NCRI Women Committee
Political prisoner Arghavan Fallahi has remained in a state of legal uncertainty for more than four months after her arrest.| NCRI Women Committee
More than 50 days have passed since the arrest of Somayeh Rashidi in Tehran, and she remains in legal limbo| NCRI Women Committee
In a continued campaign of intensified pressure on political prisoners in Iran, political prisoner Shiva Esmaeli, held in the women's| NCRI Women Committee
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support. If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner, please let us …| Kersplebedeb
As long as a prisoner resists, she remains free In the summer of 1982, inside the towering, brutal walls of| NCRI Women Committee
Nearly four months after the arrest of Ayda Najaflou — a Christian convert and mother of two — she remains| NCRI Women Committee
The recent disclosure of documents related to the sexual assault and subsequent murder of the arrested protester Nika Shakarami, before| NCRI Women Committee
[Originally posted to RashidMOD.com on May 15, 2025.] On the early morning on May 1, 2025 I was awakened by guards opening my general population cell door at Virginia’s Keen Mountain Correctional (sic!) Center and telling me to report to the prison’s personal property department. Upon reporting to property I …| Kersplebedeb
In the prisons operated by Iran's theocratic regime, female inmates are subjected to forced labor, extended working hours without fair| NCRI Women Committee
Ayda Najaflou, a Christian convert, has been held in legal limbo in Tehran’s Evin Prison for nearly four months, with| NCRI Women Committee
The Iranian regime continues to deny sick political prisoners proper medical care, refusing both hospital transfers and medical leave, deliberately.| NCRI Women Committee
Marzieh Farsi, a political prisoner held in the women’s ward of Evin Prison, is facing severe deterioration in her health| NCRI Women Committee
NOTE: If you regularly send packets to Caleb Freestone, please stop as he hasbeen released to a halfway house. Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and …| Kersplebedeb
Nasrin Hassani, a journalist and media activist, is currently serving her prison sentence in Bojnourd Prison under harsh and unlawful| NCRI Women Committee
On Saturday, April 13, 2025, Iranian security forces affiliated with the Ministry of Intelligence raided the home of a Christian| NCRI Women Committee
In the 66th week of the "No to Execution Tuesdays" campaign, families of political prisoners on death row and groups| NCRI Women Committee
It has been three months since the re-arrest of Arghavan Fallahi, a 25-year-old woman from Parand, and her family remains| NCRI Women Committee
The family of Hamid Hossein-Nejad Heydaranlou, an impoverished Kulbar sentenced to death, has been staging a death row protest outside| NCRI Women Committee
Women prisoners in Zahedan Prison join the 64th week of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign, as families of political| NCRI Women Committee
In the summer of 1988, thousands of political prisoners were secretly executed in prisons across Iran. Among the victims of| NCRI Women Committee
On World Human Rights Day, we have a glance at the conditions of women in Iranian prisons. The conditions of| NCRI Women Committee
Parisa Darvish, a young woman residing in Mashhad, has been reportedly detained by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and| NCRI Women Committee
More than 160 days after their arrest, Hoda Mehreganfar and her father, Mohammad-Ali Mehreganfar—residents of Zarqan, a town in Fars| NCRI Women Committee
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 – A group of families of political prisoners sentenced to death staged a peaceful protest outside| NCRI Women Committee
Mehregan Namavar, a writer, poet, and civil activist from Dehdasht, in Iran's Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, was severely injured in| NCRI Women Committee
Nearly two months after the arrest of Arghavan Fallahi, there is still no information about her condition, and she remains| NCRI Women Committee
Eleven days have passed since the arrest of Mehregan Namavar, a poet, writer, and literary critic from Dehdasht, a district| NCRI Women Committee
Narges Nasri, a Christian convert, has been sentenced by Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court to 16 years in| NCRI Women Committee
Raheleh Rahemipour, a 72-year-old justice-seeking activist, has been sentenced to more than four years in prison, according to a recent| NCRI Women Committee
On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, security forces in Semnan arrested Anisa Fanaiyan, a Bahaii citizen, to enforce her seven-year prison| NCRI Women Committee
Former political prisoners, Forough Taghipour and Marzieh Farsi were arrested in Tehran on Monday, August 21, 2023. The arrests are| NCRI Women Committee
On International Women’s Day, political prisoner Forough Taghipour, currently held in the women’s ward of Evin Prison, has penned her| NCRI Women Committee
Arezoo Jalilzadeh, a teacher from Sardasht, a city in West Azerbaijan province in Iran, was arrested by security forces and| NCRI Women Committee
Mina Soltani Zareh, the justice-seeking mother of Shahriar Mohammadi, one of the victims of the 2022 nationwide protests in Iran,| NCRI Women Committee
Nayyereh Behnood, a political prisoner held in the women’s ward of Evin Prison, has been sentenced to five years of| NCRI Women Committee
