On this International Women s Day, we ask that you say the names of women targeted and imprisoned for exercising and advocating for freedom of religion and belief.
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On May 1
st, welcome news was reported of Arash Sadeghi’s release from prison in Iran, after serving nearly six years as a prisoner of conscience. Sadeghi is a well-known young activist in Iran who was arrested in 2016 on spurious charges such as “collusion against national security” and “propaganda against the state,” which fits a disturbing pattern of repression by Iranian authorities against activists.
Not only has Sadeghi been a target of Iranian security forces, his wife Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee was also arrested in October of 2016 for her unpublished fictional writing. Following his wife’s arrest, Sadeghi began a hunger strike, and undertook another hunger strike in 2018 in defense of his wife after her transfer to a dangerous prison outside of Tehran. These protests have had a terrible impact on Sadeghi’s health, as Iranian authorities denied him proper medical treatment. At only 34 years old, Sadeghi suffers from significant health issues.
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Female human rights activists imprisoned in Iran face increased jail terms and transfers to prisons with âdangerous and alarmingâ conditions, hundreds of miles away from their families, according to campaigners.
Warnings of the deteriorating treatment of female prisoners in Iran come days after Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian national who has served a five-year prison sentence in Iran, was sentenced to a further year in jail and a year-long travel ban by the Iranian courts.
Human rights campaigners said that in the past six months increasing numbers of Iranian women jailed for human rights and political activism had been moved from Evin prison in Tehran to prisons outside the capital city without warning.