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HRAI was founded in 2006 by a small group of Iranian activists who gathered to organize their protests against Iranian human rights violations. Beginning with a focus on defending political prisoners, and with no resources other than those freely available within Iranian society, the group grew and attracted more members and financial support.
Keyvan Rafiee is one of the founders of the Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI) along with Jamal Hosseini and Mahdi Khodaei.In the past decade, he has taken up various roles at HRAI, including the Spokesman and director, taking on a range of executive activities in this human rights organization.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The program also has a weekly "timeline report", tracing the development of issues such as the international women's rights movement and relations between Washington and Tehran", the press release states. [23] [24] In July 2019, Iranian authorities warned the public that anyone sending videos to Alinejad faced up to 10 years in prison.
Roozbeh Farahanipour (Persian:روزبه فراهانی پور; born July 16, 1971, in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-American former student activist and a leader in the movement for an Iranian cultural renaissance and the chairman of the Marz-e Por Gohar ("Glorious Frontiers") resistance movement, [1] which advocates the overthrow of Iran's Islamic government and its replacement with a secular ...
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]