Nasrin Sotoudeh is a mother, a wife, a lawyer, a women rights activist whose only crime is fending off women taking off their headscarves.
Nasrin, a renowned Iranian women rights activist, the winner of the European Union’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, was condemned to 38 years in prison. There was a spate of removing headscarf as the movement referred to 'white Wednesday' led by another Iranian women right activist Masih Alinejad. Stood on the power box on the street, some women and girls waved, removed their headscarves amidst police crackdown. Nasrin and his husband put flowers on the power boxes where the police ousted the girls and women attending the white Wednesday movement. Another allegation imputed to Nasrin was defending the Shaparak Shajari Zadeh, an action within the law. Shaparak is a woman sentenced to 20 years in jail for removing her headscarf in public and sending videos and photos of it to Masih Alinejad. It is worth mentioning that sending videos and pictures of girls removing their hijabs to Masih Alinejad is considered to be a severe crime by Islamic State.
Shirin Ebadi is the first and only Iranian woman who won the noble peace prize. Shirin is a lawyer, political activist, former judge (During the previous regime) establishing the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. Her worthy endeavours for human, women, children, and refugee’s rights made her win the noble peace prize in 2003. Iran authorities impounded Ebadi’s noble peace prize the first time in history for the confiscation of the prize by national authorities. Ebadi is now an expatriate living in the UK. Forbes magazine listed her name among the 100 most powerful women in the world, and her name also lies among the 100 most influential women of all time. (one thing that always annoys me is one of my previous supervisor beliefs, about Ms Ebadi's achievement. He used to tell that Ebadi is not deserving for noble peace prize because she is not in favour of the Islamic Republic of Iran. My supervisor is a propagandist.)
Narges Mohammadi is a mother, who has been kept deprived of visiting her children living in France, a physicist, another prominent woman rights activist sentenced to 16 years in jail.
She is a vice president of the Defender Human Right-Center, which is headed by the Shirin Ebadi, the first Iranian woman winning the noble peace prize. Narges was found guilty of colluding with foreigners against national security; membership of the DHRC considered to be an illegal group by the Islamic state and propaganda against the regime. Having been hospitalized for uterus removal surgery, she was transferred to the jail while she required to be supervised in the hospital. Suffering from an infection, Narges had no access to medicine behind the bar. Narges won the highly prestigious American Physical Society's 2018 Andrei Sakharov Prize for her exceptional leadership and crowning attainments by a scientist in upholding human rights.
Fifty-five years of a prison sentence for three women defying the obligatory hijab
Sentenced to 55 years in prison combined by a hard-liner judge Moghiseh are Mozghan Keshavarz, Yasaman Aryani and her mother, Monireh Arabshahi. Their charges include conspiring against national security, propaganda against the regime, and promoting moral corruption. Blasphemy is also among charges of Mozhgan Keshavarz. Flowers and sweet pastry were proffered to passengers in Tehran’s subway by these three civil activists on the international women day on the 8th March. Video of this movement went viral on social media leading to disturbance in the Islamic Republic media.
Saba Kord Afshari serving her custodial sentence in Gharchak prison is a women right activist caught by the police because of appearing without a headscarf in public and peroration about it on social media.
She is sentenced to 24 years in prison. Her mother, as a dissident, was also arrested by the security forces. It's been nearly seven months that her mother has been kept in captivity to put Saba under pressure for illegal interrogation.
Sepideh Gholian is a veterinary student suspended from University, political activist, and journalist coming from the city of Dezful in Iran. When the security forces of Iran captured her, she was making reports about labour remonstrance led by the Workers Union of Haft Tape sugarcane Agro-Industrial Company. The Sepideh Gholian gave a detailed account of her suffering in jail and corroborated that the security forces had tortured her. Beating, slamming, shoving on the ground, flogging, and constant sexual assaults during interrogation sessions were various kinds of torture that Sepideh was subjected to.
Atena Daemi, a famous Iranian civil rights activist, children’s rights activist, human rights activist, and political prisoner, was sentenced to 14 years in jail.
Atena was a committed supporter of ending capital punishment and attended many protests and rallies to achieve her goal. Having been arrested, Atena was in solitary confinement with no access to a lawyer. Distribution of anti-death penalty leaflets and censuring Iran’s execution record on Facebook and Twitter accounts are among Atena’s charges.
Atena Farghadani, a distinguished student of art from Alzahra University, was not allowed to enter the master program. Atena is an Iranian artist and political activist who served 18 months in prison and is known as a prisoner of conscience by amnesty international. Atena’s crime was drawing a caricature in which members of Iran’s parliament were depicted as monkeys and goats. She denounced the draft law prohibiting people from access to voluntary sterilization and measures to control birth. Her charges were considered to be depicting Iranians MPs as animals, questioning the law opposing birth control and posting photos on her Facebook.
By Mahtab
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