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Nasim Sultan Beigi, a journalist, was taken to the women’s ward of Evin Prison in Iran to begin serving her sentence of three years and six months on charges of “propaganda against the state” and “assembly and collusion against national security.” She was arrested on November 21, upon reporting in to the First Branch of the Implementation of Verdicts Office at Evin Courthouse. Nasim Sultan Beigi, a former student activist and journalist, was arrested by IRGC intelligence officers at the airport on January 11, and was transferred to Evin prison. She was temporarily released on bail on February 6, until the end of her trial. On a similar development on Saturday, November 18, a Kurdish labor and women’s rights activist, Hajar Saeedi, was detained to serve her one-year sentence in the women’s ward of the Central Prison of Sanandaj-Iran. Hajar Saeedi is accused of “assembly and collusion” against the state and “acting against national security.” Ms. Raheleh Rahimipour was also detained on Saturday, November 18, to begin serving her five-year prison sentence. She is 72 years old and is seeking justice for her brother who was killed during the mass slaughter of political opponents in the 1980s in Iran. Raheleh Rahemipour is accused of “propaganda against the state,” and “assembly and collusion” against national security. https://tinyurl.com/3s5pk36c

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On August 6, Iranian media wrote about the recruitment of 400 Hijab patrols with a monthly salary of 120 million Rials by Tehran’s municipality. As claimed by regime officials, the duty of these oppressive forces is to issue verbal warnings and prevent unveiled individuals from entering the metro and reporting them to the police in case of resistance. The Women committee of the NCRI(National Council of Resistance of Iran added:  Paying such high salaries to suppressive forces targeting women comes at a time when, according to the Supreme Labor Council’s decision, the minimum monthly wage for Iranian workers in the current Iranian year of 1402 is less than 50 million rials. Unprecedented inflation and soaring prices have placed immense burdens on workers and laborers. Heart-wrenching scenes of men, women, and children rummaging through garbage bins for their meager sustenance trouble the conscience of any human being, except for the ruling mullahs and the criminal authorities who have abandoned all sense of humanity. In October of this year-2023- Armita Geravand, an innocent 17-year-old student, lost her life after she was assaulted by Hijab patrols in a metro wagon in Tehran. https://tinyurl.com/mvvr4wj8