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The body of Elaheh Hossein-Nejad, a 24-year-old nail artist from Islamshahr in Iran was discovered on the outskirts of Tehran—11 days after she vanished on her way home from work. Her death has sent ripples of outrage across Iranian society. Elaheh had graduated in accounting but was working at a beauty salon in Tehran’s upscale Saadat Abad district and then she returned home to Islamshahr, where she helped care for her disabled brother. On the evening of Sunday, May 25, she called her family from the Islamshahr Prayer Square to say she was almost home. Moments later, her phone went silent. She was never heard from again. After nearly two weeks of frantic searching by her family, friends, and concerned citizens, her body was found in a remote area near the airport. According to forensic reports, she had been stabbed multiple times in the chest. Police later announced they had arrested a suspect who had allegedly posed as a rideshare driver and murdered Elaheh during a robbery attempt. But this official account is increasingly viewed with suspicion. Early reports from judiciary-linked outlets such as Rokna cited sexual assault as the motive, a claim that was abruptly scrubbed from later narratives. The alleged killer’s identity remains undisclosed, and the state’s shifting explanations have only deepened public mistrust.
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On the 71st week of the nationwide campaign “No to Execution Tuesdays,” women political prisoners in the women’s ward of Tehran’s Evin Prison once again raised their voices in protest to express solidarity with the movement.
Chanting slogans such as “No to repression, no to execution, no to threats — it no longer works!” and “This is the final message: executions will lead to an uprising!”, the prisoners once again drew public attention to the resistance against the cycle of state violence and capital punishment.
The 71st week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign saw widespread hunger strikes across 46 prisons in Iran. Notably, Firoozabad Prison in Fars Province joined the campaign for the first time this week. In a statement issued by striking prisoners, they expressed solidarity with the nationwide truck drivers’ strike, now in its 12th day, and called for broader unity among oppressed segments of Iranian society. https://tinyurl.com/4d5zfnm5
