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HRAI's news agency, HRANA, was the first news agency in Iran dedicated solely to reporting on human rights issues. [ citation needed ] HRAI also operates a committee known as the Fourth Pillar whose mission is to facilitate the free dissemination of information and to fight censorship and internet filtering within Iran.
One of Iran's most prominent human rights activists, Mohammadi, 51, worked as an engineer and a columnist for various newspapers following her studies. She was first arrested in 2011 for assisting ...
Iran’s most prominent human rights activist and the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner has been sentenced to another year in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, her lawyer said Tuesday.
Narges Mohammadi — an Iranian human rights advocate who’s currently serving a 10-year sentence in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison — has won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel ...
From 2018 to 2020 human rights complaints included a high rate of executions, the targeting of "journalists, online media activists, and human rights defenders" by the "security apparatus and Iran's judiciary" in "blatant disregard of international and domestic legal standards", [112] including "decades-long prison sentences" for human rights ...
Abdi took part in the 2006 One Million Signatures women's rights campaign. [1] In 2009, Abdi was a participant in the Iranian Green Movement while a student at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran. [2] He was able to avoid arrest, and in September he left Iran after obtaining a student visa. [2]
Iran is moving to head off a possible repeat of unrest ahead of the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, arresting women’s rights activists and family members of people killed during ...
An informal network of activists inside Iran, known as the Volunteer Committee for Monitoring the Situation of Detainees, has alleged that as of 30 October, intelligence agencies reported the arrest of 130 human rights defenders, 38 women's rights advocates, 36 political activists, 19 lawyers and 38 journalists along with citizen protesters.