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11 months after her arrest and imprisonment, political prisoner Nasim Gholami Simiyari remains detained under uncertain conditions in the women’s ward of Evin Prison in Tehran- Iran. Security forces arrested her on May 18, 2023, in Tehran and took her to one of the detention centers of the Ministry of Intelligence. She was subjected to psychological and physical torture to extract confessions. Ms. Gholami has been charged with, disseminating propaganda against the state, engaging in assembly and collusion to disrupt national security, and membership in groups and gangs intended to disrupt national security.
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A couple Yassin Zolfaghafi and her unnamed wife were hanged in the Central Prison of Tabriz-Iran at dawn on March 18, on the eve of the Persian New Year. The newlywed couple were executed for allegedly possessing 3 kilograms of Crack. They came originally from Jolfa, in East Azerbaijan Province, and had been married for only a year. This is third woman executed in 2024, and the 232nd woman executed in Iran since 2007, according to the data compiled by the NCRI Women’s Committee.
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Two Iranian Kurdish women Varisha Moradi and Pakhshan Azizi linger in Evin Prison without standing trial for nearly eight months. Varisha Moradi has been in jail for more than 235 days and is charged with Bagh-y for membership in a Kurdish opposition party. Bagh-y or “armed insurgency” is a very heavy charge which can carry long prison terms and even the death sentence. She was transferred from Ward 209 to the women’s ward of Evin Prison after the end of her interrogations on December 26, 2023. Pakhshan Azizi who has been detained for more than 230 days, was arrested on August 4, 2023, in Shahrak-e Kharrazi, Tehran. Pakhshan is a journalist, a former political prisoner, and Social Work graduate. She endured over four months of extensive interrogation without legal counsel or communication with her family in the Intelligence Ministry’s Ward 209 at Evin Prison.
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The Iranian political prisoners in Qezal Hesar Prison held their 9th round of hunger strike in protest to the Iranian regime’s spate of executions on Tuesday, March 26, 2024 which is known as strike Tuesdays. A number of political prisoners in the women’s ward of Evin Prison as well as prisoners in wards 4, 6, and 8 joined the hunger strike as before. Political detainees in the prisons of Khorramabad, Mashhad, Saqqez, Naghadeh, Khoy, and the Central Prison of Karaj also went on hunger strike. On Tuesday, January 30, several death-row prisoners in Qezel Hesar made an announcement: “In order to amplify our voices, we will commence a hunger strike every Tuesday. We have chosen Tuesdays because this day often marks the final moments for our fellow inmates, who are usually transferred to solitary confinement a few days prior.”
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