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The execution of Mr. Jamshid Sharmahd by the Iranian regime on Monday Oct. 28, sparked a reaction by the German government. It shut down the Iranian regime's consulate in a few German cities and summoned the regime's ambassador to Germany. Maryam Rajavi the president elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran condemned Mr. Sharmahd's execution and called for the IRGC Islamic Revolutioanry Guard Corp to be put on a terrorist list. Also the German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock declared that Germany would push for European Union-wide sanctions against individuals involved in Sharmahd’s execution and called on the EU to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization. https://tinyurl.com/7efzzbvw

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Sulmaz Hassanzadeh, the justice-seeking sister of Mohammad Hassanzadeh, has been sentenced to one year of imprisonment by Branch 101 of the Criminal Court of Bukan on charges of “propaganda against the state.” On July 30, 2024, during a ceremony commemorating Mohammad Hassanzadeh, a victim of the 2022 nationwide Iran uprising, on his birthday, security forces launched an attack on his family home in Bukan. They violently arrested his father and sister, Ahmad and Sulmaz Hassanzadeh. The situation escalated as they physically assaulted his mother and two neighbor women. The incident occurred while the Hassanzadeh family prepared to commemorate their late son’s birthday. https://tinyurl.com/y4bxfst5

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Political Prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared Transferred to Notorious Qarchak Prison after Completing her 15-Year Sentence. After extending the prison sentence of Maryam for another two years, the Iranian Judiciary committed another inhuman act on October 22, 2024, by ordering her transfer to the notorious Qarchak Prison for women in Varamin, where she has been held in solitary confinement as this report is being published. Her younger daughter was only 3 years old when Maryam was arrested. https://tinyurl.com/423kknsz

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The Families of Death Row Prisoners Protested Against Executions in Iran by chanting Don't execute on the streets of Tehran-Iran on the 40th week of No to execution Tuesdays campaign. Last week, on the 39th week of the “Tuesdays Against Execution” campaign, families of death row prisoners also held a similer demonstration in front of the parliament in Tehran.

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At around 5 AM on Oct. 22, security agents stormed the home of Hoda Mehreganfar and her father in Zarqan, a town in Fars Province in Iran, and took the 35-year-old Hoda and her 66-year-old father into custody without providing any reason for the arrest. Their current whereabouts remain unknown. Efforts by the family to get information about Hoda and Mohammad Ali’s situation have so far been unsuccessful. Adding to the family’s distress, Hoda Mehreganfar had recently undergone a major surgery and was still in the recovery phase when she was arrested. This has intensified their worries about her condition while in detention. https://tinyurl.com/y8mjuwfx

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On Tuesday, October 22, families of death row inmates gathered in front of the Iranian regime's Parliament in Tehran to protest during the 39th week of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign. Chanting “Stop the executions,” they voiced their opposition to the death sentences and the imminent execution of their children. It is noteworthy that similar protests were held in Tehran and Karaj in October and November 2023, but security forces violently suppressed them. This protest marks another step in expanding the “No to Executions” campaign beyond the prison walls. https://tinyurl.com/ywhtxt54

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A week after the Iranian judiciary’s spokesperson announced the imminent implementation of the sentences for journalists Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, the formal notifications for their prison terms were sent to them on Saturday, October 19, 2024, instructing them to report within five days. The two journalists were released from Evin Prison on January 14, 2024, each on a temporary bail of 10 billion Tomans, after spending 16 months in prison. Niloufar Hamedi, a photojournalist for Shargh newspaper, took and published the first photo of Mahsa Amini in a coma at the hospital. Elaheh Mohammadi, a journalist for Ham-Mihan newspaper, published a report on Mahsa’s funeral and an interview with her father. https://tinyurl.com/4hj8tn2c

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Ten Baha’i women residing in Isfahan_Iran—Shana Shoghi-Far, Negin Khademi, Neda Emadi, Neda Badakhsh, Arezou Sobhanian, Yeganeh Rouhbakhs, Mojgan Shahrezaei, Parastoo Hakim, Yeganeh Agahi, and Bahareh Lotfi—have been collectively sentenced to 90 years of prison and additional punishments by the Iranian Judiciary. The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) strongly condemns the prison sentences and confiscation of assets imposed on Baha’i women by the brutal judiciary of the Iranian regime. https://tinyurl.com/3jrju5zn

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According to the data recorded by the Women’s Committee of the Nationla Council of Resistance of Iran, the number of women executed in Iran has sharply increased over the past year, with 32 executions recorded between October 2023 and October 2024. This marks a troubling rise from previous years, up from 19 women executed in 2022–2023 and 21 in 2021–2022. The current year’s figure is particularly alarming, surpassing the average rate of 21 executions under Ebrahim Raisi by 11 and more than double the annual average of 15 under former president Hassan Rouhani. Given the clandestine nature of executions and the lack of public announcement by the judiciary, it is evident that the actual number is higher than reported. This surge underscores the Iranian regime’s growing use of capital punishment, including against women—an escalation in human rights abuses now seen under the administration of Masoud Pezeshkian. The total number of executions in Iran in 2024 has surpassed 600, so far, with more than 300 prisoners including 12 women executed since Pezeshkian took office. https://tinyurl.com/mwybjbsj

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Mahsa Jalal Badii was transferred to Lakan Prison in Rasht, a northern city in Iran, on Sunday, October 13, after being summoned to the Enforcement Branch of the Revolutionary Court in Rasht to begin her sentence of three years and six months in prison. Born in 1985, Mahsa resides in Rasht and is the mother of a teenager. She has been sentenced to imprisonment for engaging in reading and sharing scientific content. This single mother was originally arrested on May 13, 2024, by security forces in Rasht and released on bail after six days of detention. Later, the Third Branch of the Revolutionary Court in Rasht sentenced Mahsa Jalal Badii on charges of “propaganda against the regime” to seven months and sixteen days in prison, and additionally, three years and six months for “educational and promotional activities deemed contrary to Islamic law.” Her sentence also includes a ten-year ban on social rights.The court cited her online activities deemed “inconsistent with Islamic principles,” the conversion of banned books into audio files for dissemination, and her support for political figures and the nationwide protests of 2022 as reasons for her sentence. https://tinyurl.com/rnvsryj9

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Kurdish political prisoner, Varisha Moradi, began an indefinite hunger strike on Thursday, October 10, protesting the surge in death sentences, the continued extension of her detention, and her denial of visitation rights with family and legal representation. It has been nearly a year since the political prisoner Varisha Moradi was arrested and placed in a state of uncertainty. Her first court session was held on June 16, 2024, in Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Abolqasem Salavati. The charges against her include armed insurgency (Bagh-ye) and membership in opposition groups against the regime. Since mid-May 2024, Varisha Moradi has been deprived of in-person meetings and phone calls with her family and lawyer. This illegal action has put additional psychological pressure on her, indicating the authorities’ efforts to break her spirit. In the Sunday, June 16, 2024, court session, the judge did not allow her lawyers to defend their client. This move is a blatant violation of the legal rights of the prisoner and highlights the oppressive behavior of the Iranian judiciary. The second court session addressing the charges against Varisha Moradi was held on October 6. Varisha Moradi is a women’s rights activist and a member of the Free Women’s Society of Eastern Kurdistan (KJAR). She was abducted on August 1, 2023, in Kermanshah, on her way to Sanandaj in western Iran. https://tinyurl.com/3vna68cz

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The Iranian regime’s judiciary refuses to release political prisoner Maryam Akbari who has completed her 15-year sentence without a day of leave. Maryam's sentence ended on October 12, 2024. She was arrested in 2009 after she asked about her cibligns burial plot. Her brothers and sister were executed during 1980s in Iran. The family were not told where they were buried. The National Council of Resistance of Iran – Women’s Committee issued a statement sayin: In a vile and inhuman action in July 2024, the regime’s judiciary issued an order to confiscate the properties of Maryam Akbari and her relatives due to her seeking justice for her three brothers and one sister who were executed. Her youngest daughter was 3 years old when she was arrested. She attends unitversity now.

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Kowsar Dehbanzadeh, sister of political prisoner Maysam Dehbanzadeh, was arrested by Intelligence officials in Shiraz, the capital of Fars Province in southern Iran. Kowsar had been under pressure from security agents due to her advocacy and legal pursuits for her brother. She was arrested by intelligence officers in Shiraz without any legal documentation and was transferred to solitary confinement at the Intelligence Detention Center (Cell 100) in Shiraz on Friday, September 27. Kowsar Dehbanzadeh had previously been summoned multiple times by Yasuj Intelligence, where she faced threats for supporting her brother, Maysam Dehbanzadeh, who is currently imprisoned in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj. Intelligence agents have threatened her family, warning them not to publicize her arrest. https://tinyurl.com/apw7r4dy

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On the morning of Tuesday, October 1, a young woman was executed in Ahar Prison, East Azerbaijan Province in Iran. Akhtar Ghorbanlou, a victim of child marriage, had been arrested on murder charges and sentenced to death. At the age of 17, Akhtar was forcibly married to a man 18 years her senior, arranged by her family. Reportedly, Akhtar’s father compelled her to marry the victim due to his wealth. She was accused of killing her husband by giving him lethal pills.  https://tinyurl.com/5bjp7tdv

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On the morning of October 2, the execution sentence for another woman named Zahra Fayzi was carried out in Tabriz Central Prison in Iran. Zahra , aged 41 and a resident of Tabriz, was arrested four years ago on charges of murdering her husband and was sentenced to qesas (retribution in kind). The victim’s family demanded 4.5 billion tomans from Zahra’s family to halt the execution, but her family was unable to gather this amount. This sum far exceeds the official blood money rate in Iran, which has been set by the judiciary at 1.2 billion tomans for 2024. https://tinyurl.com/5n6whpz2

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Fatemeh Moradpour, a 15-year-old girl from Lorestan-Iran, took her own life after being pressured by her family to marry. This tragic event occurred on Tuesday, October 1, in Rumeshkan, a town in Lorestan province. Her family had been pressuring her to marry a 40-year-old married man. Having repeatedly refused the marriage, Fatemeh eventually resorted to suicide and hanged herself.  https://tinyurl.com/4kka5k6r