Shocking Statistics on Women's Execution in Iran; 34 Women Executed in 2024 While the death penalty has been abolished in| 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
Azar Karvandi Musazadeh reported to Evin Prison on Sunday, July 30, 2023, to serve her five years. The 24th branch| 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
Brave mothers rise up to expose the crimes of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards April 27, 1981, has been registered under| NCRI Women Committee
Fatemeh Mesbah, 13, a symbol of Resistance for freedom Fatemeh Mesbah, executed at the age of 13, is one of| NCRI Women Committee
On the 68th week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign, families of political prisoners gathered in Tehran and at| 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
Touba Azmudeh (born 1878 – died September 23, 1936) is remembered as one of the most influential pioneers of women’s| NCRI Women Committee
In a new and lasting report, Professor Rita Süssmuth, who served for ten years as the President of the German| NCRI Women Committee
The passing of Samineh Baghcheban, writer, translator, and one of the founders of deaf education in Iran, brought sorrow to| 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
At dawn on Monday, September 29, 2025, Jayran Zaheri, a female prisoner was hanged along with three men in the| NCRI Women Committee
Adelabad Prison that is also known as the Central Prison of Shiraz is one of the largest detention facilities in Iran. In recent years, it has become a symbol of systemic human rights abuses and violations of human dignity, particularly in its women’s ward. Severe overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, denial of medical care, and widespread psychological […]| NCRI Women Committee
From the memoir by Hengameh Haj Hassan – Part 19 In the previous four parts of Hengameh Haj Hassan’s memoir Face to Face with the Beast, she described the harrowing conditions of the Cage—a nine-month ordeal she personally endured. This project was designed to force mass repentance from political prisoners but ultimately failed. Beginning with […]| 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
In the early hours of Tuesday, September 30, 2025, a tragic bus crash involving students from the Paramedical Faculty of Sorkheh along the Semnan–Sorkheh road claimed the lives of two female medical students and left eleven others injured. The bus, carrying 13 students and a driver, veered off the road at approximately 7:40 a.m. after […]| NCRI Women Committee
At dawn on Monday, September 29, 2025, Jayran Zaheri, a female prisoner was hanged along with three men in the Central Prison of Isfahan. Jayran Zaheri had been arrested nearly nine years ago for killing her husband and was subsequently sentenced to death. With the execution of Jayran Zaheri in the Central Prison of Isfahan, […]| NCRI Women Committee
One Woman Executed Every 4 Days in Iran: Mullahs Set Grim Human-Rights Record 14 women have been executed in two months September 2025 Report: One Woman Executed Every 4 Days in Iran October 10, the World Day Against the Death Penalty, is a reminder of the global community’s commitment to defending the most fundamental right […]| 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
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
In a fresh wave of regressive reforms, the Iranian regime has significantly tightened the conditions for women’s retirement under the| NCRI Women Committee
A 26-year-old female worker gets killed in a factory in Neyshabur A 26-year-old female worker from Neyshabur died after her| NCRI Women Committee
A female worker, 40, lost her life when dragged into a confectionary machine. The incident happened in a patisserie in| NCRI Women Committee
Iran labor law is not implemented for female workers. A tragic incident in early November outraged the Iranian public over| NCRI Women Committee
A female textile worker lost her life when a spinning machine pulled in her head. Marzieh Taherian was working with| NCRI Women Committee
There are more than 3 million women engaged in informal employment in the industry and services sectors in Iran. Some| NCRI Women Committee
Women's presence in Iranian production units without receiving sufficient pay is tormenting. Ahmad Amirabadi Farahani, a member of the presiding| NCRI Women Committee
The General Board of Directors of the Administrative Court of Justice rescinded a directive by the general director of the| NCRI Women Committee
From the memoir by Hengameh Haj Hassan – Part 9 Face to Face with the Beast ⚠️ Content Warning: This| NCRI Women Committee
The names of some of the PMOI women who were executed while pregnant by the Iranian regime: Asieh Ebrahimpour Leila| 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
On August 30th, a conference entitled “Iran Uprising Against the Mullahs’ Regime” was held at the Municipality of the 17th| NCRI Women Committee
On Saturday, February 22, 2025, the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran hosted a conference to| NCRI Women Committee
Hadiqeh Abadi, an Afghan national, was executed at dawn on Thursday, September 11, 2025, in Qazvin Prison alongside her husband,| 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
On the eve of the anniversary of the 2022 Iran uprising and the start of the new academic year, Iranian| NCRI Women Committee
Every year, World Day for Safety and Health at Work (April 28) and International Workers Day (May 1) serve as| NCRI Women Committee
Labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi has been in custody for over three months since she was arrested. Her case is in| NCRI Women Committee
On Tuesday, September 2, 2025, the central headquarters of the mullahs’ Ministry of Education in Tehran witnessed a joint protest| 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
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (also known as Pearl S. Buck; June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer,| NCRI Women Committee
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) remains one of the most inspiring figures of the 20th| NCRI Women Committee
From the memoir by Hengameh Haj Hassan – Part 11 ⚠️ Content Warning: This section of Face to Face with| NCRI Women Committee
Ilam University: In the early hours of Saturday, May 31, a gas leak at a girls’ dormitory at Ilam University| NCRI Women Committee
In less than a month (24 days), Iran has witnessed a shocking wave of domestic violence that has left at| 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
The Free Iran 2024 World Summit kicked off on June 29, 2024, in Paris, just one day after the boycott| 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 Glance at a Costly and Ineffective Policy The “Youthful Population Law” in Iran vs. Women’s Human Rights Following a| NCRI Women Committee
Nurses and Retirees Protest Against Injustice in Tehran and Other Cities In recent days, protests have erupted across Tehran and| NCRI Women Committee
In recent months, we have witnessed widespread protests across Iran by teachers demanding the approval and implementation of the Teachers| 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
In a move that has sparked outrage among civil society and human rights advocates, Iranian state media reported on Sunday,| NCRI Women Committee
In a powerful statement of unity, 651 prominent women leaders, including former heads of state, ministers, jurists, and human rights| NCRI Women Committee
The United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission, in its latest report, once again highlights the ongoing systematic and targeted repression| NCRI Women Committee
209 members of the Iranian regime’s parliament have signed a petition urging Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf to enforce the controversial| NCRI Women Committee
From the memoir by Hengameh Haj Hassan - Part 10 ⚠️ Content Warning: This section contains descriptions of torture, violence,| 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
A confrontation sparked by a Hijab patrol in the city of Fasa over the outfit of two teenage girls escalated| NCRI Women Committee
Female relatives of political prisoners held in Greater Tehran Penitentiary (a.k.a. Fashafuyeh) say they are being subjected to “degrading, abusive| NCRI Women Committee
On the morning of Tuesday, April 30, 2024, four prisoners, including a woman, were executed in Birjand prison. The identity| NCRI Women Committee
Solmaz Abbasi, a 43-year-old volleyball coach and newly hired schoolteacher, was brutally murdered by her husband on Saturday, June 28,| NCRI Women Committee
While many countries around the world have taken steps in recent decades to outlaw child marriage by raising the minimum| NCRI Women Committee
Not a week goes by without some form of honor killing making headlines. The clerical regime’s failure to criminalize these| NCRI Women Committee
Not a week goes by in Iran without the honor killings of young women making news headlines. The past weeks| 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
A man killed his 14-year-old daughter while asleep. The 20-year-old mother of a toddler was tortured and murdered by her| NCRI Women Committee
The clerical government is the prime suspect in the murder of women. Iran is one of six countries across the| NCRI Women Committee
Download English Version What was the fate of the bill to prevent Violence Against Women in Iran? A misogynist tyrannical| NCRI Women Committee
Drastic rise in violence against women in Iran Download English Version A study by the Women’s Committee of the National| NCRI Women Committee
Cultural activist Sahba Hemadi also known as Lamya was taken to the Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz on December 30, 2020,| NCRI Women Committee
On Monday, August 11, 2025, Sheida Kardgar, a 15-year-old girl from a village near the northern city of Babol in| 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
On Monday, August 4, 2025, during the second annual general assembly of the Isfahan Provincial Construction Engineering Organization, engineer Sahar| NCRI Women Committee
While many countries around the world have taken steps in recent decades to outlaw child marriage by raising the minimum| NCRI Women Committee
Every year, the Iranian Resistance holds its Free Iran annual gathering to beam a strong message of hope for regime| NCRI Women Committee
Tehran students held a major protest and march around 11.30 a.m. on Monday, December 31, 2018, outside the University of| NCRI Women Committee
In the early hours of Thursday, August 14, 2025, a man—residing in one of Golestan province’s towns—first murdered his wife| 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
Dual Repression of Political Prisoners and Their Families: The Regime’s Fear of Protests and Uprisings AUGUST 2025 Report: In August,| NCRI Women Committee
