Sunday, March 11, 2018

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More than 80 Iranian women and men were arrested during the gathering on the International Women’s Day in Tehran outside the Labor Ministry. To prevent this gathering, security forces attacked the early participants using batons and shockers. At least 59 women and 25 men were arrested. Thursday night, March 8, the families of those arrested gathered outside the SSF Station on Tehran’s Vozara Avenue, demanding freedom of their children and relatives. A number of those arrested have been released but the families continued their protest to gain the release of all of those arrested. 


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Political prisoner Golrokh Iraee is in dangerous health condition on her 36th day of hunger strike, but she has refused to give up her demand. According to reports from Qarchak Prison in Varamin, Ms. Iraee had extreme difficulty breathing and speaking, but she will not break her hunger strike until she is returned to Evin Prison.
She has received IV fluid and anti-nausea injections over the past several days but her muscles cramp and inflate. The dispensary’s doctor says “this is a dangerous condition and this reaction might occur to her heart muscles as well. She must be attended to as soon as possible.” Amnesty International issued a statement on March 9, expressing alarm at the condition of Golrokh Iraee and demanding her and Atena Daemi’s immediate release. Haj Moradi, deputy Prosecutor of Evin overseeing political prisoners, though, has told the prisoners’ families that Golrokh will not be returned to Evin even if she dies. Political prisoners Golrokh Iraee and Atena Daemi are held in the quarantine ward of Qarchak Prison in conditions similar to solitary confinement. They are not allowed to leave the ward and no one has permission to visit them. The prisoners can only call their families once a week in the presence of prison agents.


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Sixty Iranians, including 38 women, were arrested at a party in Mashhad, capital of the northeastern Razavi Khorassan Province. Their arrest was announced by Hassan Heydari, deputy Prosecutor of Mashhad. The regime also attacked a party on February 17, and arrested some 40 men and women in Amol, one of the major cities of Mazandaran Province in northern Iran.



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A young female student was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment. Leila Hosseinzadeh, Anthropology student of Tehran University, was sentenced to six years in jail – five years for assembly and collusion and one year for propaganda against the state. She is also banned from leaving the country for two years.
Ms. Hosseinzadeh had ben arrested during the uprising in January 2018 for participating in the protests on Tehran University campus. She was temporarily released after a few weeks on bail.
Hundreds of women were arrested during and after the nationwide protests and uprising in Iran since Dec. 2017. Some 8000 pepole were arrested and at least 14 has been killed under torure.