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Four members of the Voice of Iranian Women Association (Neda-ye Zanan-e Iran) were summoned to the Prosecutor’s Office of Evin Prison on August 18, to begin serving their prison sentences. Each of the four members of the Voice of Iranian Women Association was sentenced to 4 years and 2 months’ imprisonment by the Revolutionary Court of Tehran. Their sentence was eventually reduced to 2 years and 3 months’ imprisonment on appeal. The charges against the four women include “promoting corruption and prostitution,” “association and collusion against national security,” and “propaganda against the state.” https://tinyurl.com/4s87dtrm

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Political prisoner Zohreh Sarv has contracted an infectious disease in Evin Prison and has been denied access to medical care and the right to treatment. Political prisoner Zohreh Sarv is an online activist who is detained in Evin Prison with a 5-year prison sentence. A source informed about Zohreh Sarv‘s illness said, Ms. Sarv “has recently contracted a form of infectious disease and due to the spread of the disease in her body, she cannot even inject a third dose of the Coronavirus vaccine. If she is also infected with the Coronavirus, she will lose her life.” The source added, “The authorities at Evin Prison promised to send Zohreh Sarv to the hospital on August 20, 2022, due to her critical condition.” The online activist was arrested on December 24, 2019, by Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) intelligence agents for allegedly operating in cyberspace and managing an Instagram page. After being transferred to Ward 1A and during interrogation and arraignment proceedings, she was transferred to Qarchak Prison on January 11, 2020. https://tinyurl.com/6b347mxa

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On Thursday Aug. 18, Soada Khadirzadeh a Kurdish Political prisoner in Iran attempted to hang herself in Urmia women's prison and fed her two-month-old baby girl "Ala" pills to end their lives. The mother and daughter were rescued by the inmates but their health condition is critical. Soada and Ala were returned to jail 10 hours after a C-section in a hospital. Soada went on hunger strike while 8 months pregnant in prison. It's not clear why she was arrested. But the prison authorities demanded Soada to snitch on other prisoners who have been in contact with the human rights organizations.

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A group of hired prisoners nearly killed retired teacher Massoumeh Asgari on August 16. She is serving her sentence in Kachouii Prison in Karaj, a city 40 kilometers west of Tehran-Iran. The prison warden had hired the female group of attackers to assault Ms. Asgari. They attempted to strangle her. https://tinyurl.com/492ymx6z

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Women political prisoners have been beaten in Ilam

and Evin prisons in Iran. The number of women infected by Coronavirus in these prisons has increased while deprived of minimum healthcare. Political prisoner Khadijeh Mehdipour was beaten in Ilam Prison. Political prisoners Asal Mohammadi, a labor activist, and Samin Ehsani, a Baha’i citizen, have been infected with the Coronavirus in Evin Prison. Melika Gharagozlu, a student of journalism at Tehran’s Tabatabii University, is still held in detention without standing trial. Her physical and psychological conditions are not good at all. https://tinyurl.com/3fmfdp7h

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The number of Bahai students who passed the national entrance exam in 2022 but were denied admission to education for various reasons in Iran, has reached 54. More than half of Bahai students are young women who are banned from continuing their education. After entering their information on the Evaluation Organization website, the Bahai students are referred to a page that only informs them of their files’ deficiencies without mentioning their names. The Iranian regime has been using the term “file defect” since 2006 to deprive Bahai students of continuing their education in universities systematically. https://tinyurl.com/bde2528k

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Hadi Matar, who last Friday attacked Salman Rushdie, the author of The Satanic Verses, with a knife in New York State, told the New York Times that he had only read a few pages of the book. Matter is reportedly has been in contact with the IRGC Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran. Salman Rushdie, 75, has been living underground for more than 3 decades because Khomeini the founder of Islamic State in Iran, issued a religious Fatwa in 1988 in which he told Muslims to kill Rushdie