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On Saturday, October 11, 2025, coinciding with the World Day Against the Death Penalty, a conference was held at the| NCRI Women Committee
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On Saturday, October 11, 2025, coinciding with the World Day Against the Death Penalty, a conference was held at the| NCRI Women Committee
The health condition of Shiva Esmaeli, a political prisoner held in the women’s ward of Evin Prison, has reportedly reached| NCRI Women Committee
Hoda Mehreganfar, a 38-year-old electronics engineer and political prisoner, is facing a critical health crisis in Adelabad Prison, Shiraz. Despite her deteriorating condition, security agencies continue to block her transfer to a hospital. This deliberate disregard for medical warnings has placed her life in grave danger. According to informed sources, Hoda Mehreganfar’s endometrioma cyst has […]| NCRI Women Committee
Shiva Esmaeli, a political prisoner held in Evin Prison, is suffering from a severe spinal condition that has left her in excruciating pain. Despite her critical condition, prison authorities have deliberately obstructed her transfer to a hospital and denied her access to specialized medical care. The pain has reportedly become so intense that Esmaeli struggles […]| NCRI Women Committee
Following widespread protests and a hunger strike by death-row prisoners in Qezel Hesar Prison, a group of female political prisoners held in Tehran’s Evin Prison have issued a statement declaring their support for the movement and calling for the nationwide abolition of the death penalty. In their statement, released recently from the ward of female […]| NCRI Women Committee
More than seven months after the arrest of Zahra Shahbaz Tabari, a 60-year-old resident of Rasht, this political prisoner remains| NCRI Women Committee
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Maryam Akbari's unbound courage, unfettered soul, and unbroken resolve keep her going amidst overwhelming adversity On December 30, 2023, Maryam| NCRI Women Committee
On the anniversary of the massacre of political prisoners in Iran in summer 1988, political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared who| NCRI Women Committee
Following a complaint filed by political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared, UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances recognized her| NCRI Women Committee
Ebrahim Raisi must be brought to justice for crimes against humanity On International Day in Support of Victims of Torture,| NCRI Women Committee
In Cuba, slave labor is producing products for export. A new, comprehensive report has revealed the existence of a systemic forced labor program involving tens of thousands of prisoners, including political dissidents, whose hard labor produces goods destined for European markets. Cuba’s communist system has always resorted to forced labor and incarceration ... Read more The post Forced Labor in Paradise: How Cuba’s Prisoners Supply European Markets first appeared on The American TFP.| The American TFP
The 74th Week of “No to Executions Tuesdays” Observed in 47 Prisons Families Demand Freedom for Their Imprisoned Children The| NCRI Women Committee
It has turned out that the new warden of Qarchak Prison is a notorious torturer appointed to step up pressure| NCRI Women Committee
Branch 47 of the Isfahan Court of Appeals has upheld a total sentence of 90 years in prison and additional| NCRI Women Committee
Fresh reports reveal that Sudabeh Asadi, an inmate jailed on financial charges, died at Qarchak Prison in Varamin, on Tuesday,| NCRI Women Committee
On Thursday, September 25, 2025, women political prisoners in Qarchak Prison in Varamin staged protest gatherings in response to the| NCRI Women Committee
Zeinab Jalalian, a Kurdish political prisoner and the only woman in Iran serving a life sentence, is reported to be| NCRI Women Committee
Security forces of the Iranian regime raided the home of a Baloch family in the Golshahr district of Chabahar and| NCRI Women Committee
Qarchak Prison in Varamin has once again become a focal point of humanitarian crisis. The recurring deaths of prisoners—primarily due| NCRI Women Committee
Political prisoner Hoda Mehreganfar, a 38-year-old electronics engineer from Zarghan, Fars Province, remains in legal limbo at Adelabad Prison in| NCRI Women Committee
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On August 30, 2025, a conference was held at the Municipality of the 17th District of Paris under the title| NCRI Women Committee
On August 30th, a conference entitled “Iran Uprising Against the Mullahs’ Regime” was held at the Municipality of the 17th| NCRI Women Committee
Azar Korvandi, a political prisoner held in Qarchak Prison in Varamin, is suffering from heart disease and cancer while being| NCRI Women Committee
On the morning of Sunday, September 14, 2025, the ward housing female political prisoners at Qarchak Prison in Varamin was| NCRI Women Committee
Maryam Shahraki’s death highlights corruption in the prison system and Judicial injustice In the early hours of September 12, 2025,| NCRI Women Committee
On August 30th, a conference entitled “Iran Uprising Against the Mullahs’ Regime” was held at the Municipality of the 17th| NCRI Women Committee
On August 30, 2025, a conference was held at the Municipality of the 17th District of Paris under the title| NCRI Women Committee
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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| NCRI Women Committee
More than a week after their arrest, Razieh Hassanzadeh and Asiyeh Kaykhah, both from Zabol, in Sistan and Baluchestan Province,| 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
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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
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
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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
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
Political prisoner Massoumeh Senobari was brutally beaten and severely bruised by prison officials in Fardis Prison in Karaj, on Sunday,| 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
