27 human rights organizations renew calls for the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) to take urgent action on behalf of the detained writer.
Tehran's suppression of widespread protests for women's rights has resulted in more than 14,000 people being detained by the end of the year. Dozens of writers were among them. With those arrests, Iran registered the largest increase globally in jailed writers between 2021 and 2022, with 39 new cases of detention or imprisonment in 2022,…