Over 139,400 people have died of the novel coronavirus in 462 cities checkered across Iran’s 31 provinces, according to reports tallied by the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) as of Sunday afternoon local time, November 1. The official death toll declared by the regime stands at 35,298, around a fourth of the actual figure.

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Some 300 female prisoners have been relocated to the Central Prison of Urmia from across West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. The relocation has been carried out on the orders of the clerical regime’s Judiciary but the reason is still unknown. The relocation of some 300 female prisoners took place on October 23. The Central Prison of Urmia is plagued with the coronavirus. In March 2020, Fatemeh Alizadeh, 53, lost her life after contracting the disease. Female prisoners held a hunger strike in protest of the death of their inmate. https://tinyurl.com/y3nxncrg

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Zahra Safaei suffered heart stroke after being harassed and mistreated by Qarchak Prison officials. She was taken to the prison’s dispensary but quickly returned to the ward after a brief examination. Reports optained by the women's committee of the Iranian resistance NCRI, on October 27, indicated that Mirzaii, the deputy warden of Qarchak Prison, and Asgari, head of the prison’s workshop, had collected signatures on a letter from 13 ordinary prisoners against women political prisoners and specifically against Zahra Safaei. Born in 1962, Zahra Safaei is the daughter of a renowned merchants of Tehran Bazaar, Hassan Ali Safaei. He was a political prisoner under the Shah's regime and was executed by the Mullah's regime in the summer of 1981. Zahra Safaei is currently imprisoned along with her daughter, Parastoo Mo’ini, in Qarchak Prison and their lives are in danger. They were arrested in March 2020 and were tortured in Ward 209 of Evin for several months. https://tinyurl.com/y3nxncrg

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Political prisoner Maryam Banou Nassiri has been transferred to Qarchak Prison in Varamin, after her interrogations were completed. Agents of the Intelligence Ministry arrested Ms. Nassiri on August 17, at her home in Qods City, also known as Qal’eh Hassan Khan. They imprisoned her in a solitary cell in Ward 209 of Evin Prison. Political prisoner Maryam Banou Nassiri is charged with “collaboration with an opposition organization (i.e. the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PMOI/MEK).” She was transferred to Qarchak Prison on October 22, 2020. Ms. Nassiri, 62, is a lawyer with four children. She was imprisoned for three years during the 1980s for supporting the PMOI/MEK. Two female civil activists, Shahla Jahanbin and Shahla Entesari were called on October 14 and verbally summoned to the Evin Courthouse to begin serving their sentences. Each of the two civil activists are sentenced to 6 years in prison on charges of “association and collusion” and “propaganda against the state.” https://tinyurl.com/y54yxg95

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The Court of Behbahan issued a total of 109 years of prison sentence, 2,590 lashes, and 3.3 million Tomans- cash fines for 36 protesters including two women arrested during November 2019 protests in this city. Behbahan was one of the hotbeds of protest in the southwest province of Khuzestan in November 2019. Ms. Roghieh Taherzadeh was ordered to pay 3.3 million Tomans in cash to replace her three-month prison sentence. She is accused of insulting government agents while on duty. Maryam Payab was sentenced to 1 year in prison and 74 lashes on the charge of “disruption of public order.” Another one of the women arrested during November 2019 protests was Fatemeh Khoshrou. She and 69 other citizens were arrested in Khorramabad on November 16, 2019. https://tinyurl.com/y4b8e3xx