At least 22 activists arrested in previous three weeks amid rising state crackdown
The worldwide group “should take decisive motion”
21 August 2023 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) stated the latest detention of no less than 22 activists, the vast majority of whom are girls, in lower than a month in Iran marks the start of intensifying state repression because the anniversary of Iran’s “Freedom of Women’s Lives” protest motion approaches.
“The intensifying repression following the federal government’s killing of lots of of protesters final 12 months requires a worldwide response that goes past amplifying the voices of those courageous girls,” Ghaemi stated.
“The worldwide group should take decisive motion towards Iran’s political leaders and judiciary officers who proceed this unlawful and violent crackdown,” he added.
The elevated crackdown on activists comes towards the backdrop of different repressive campaigns which have intensified throughout the Islamic Republic, together with:
The escalation of state repression comes simply earlier than the anniversary of the beginning of anti-government protests that erupted throughout the nation on September 16, 2022. The protests adopted the demise of 22-year-old Mahsa Jina Amini in state custody three days after she was detained by morality police for sporting an improper hijab.
Arrests and detentions with strict due course of and different rights violations
According to CHRI analysis, no less than 22 activists, largely girls, have been detained or arrested in Iran previously 22 days since July 30, 2023. Most of them have been arrested in Gilan province and have been “girls’s rights and political activists,” in line with a report by the Bidharzani Telegram app channel.
The assertion didn’t reveal the identities of these arrested, however talked about 12 political and girls’s rights activists who have been reportedly detained on August 16 and 17 (a complete checklist of detentions and arrests is supplied on the finish of this report).
Of explicit concern is the language utilized by the Ministry of Information, which claimed that activists have been “getting ready to incite chaos and unrest in Gilan province and components of Kurdistan,” particularly given the ministry’s well-documented and illegal historical past of utilizing unfounded allegations to discredit activists earlier than their trials.
Furthermore, the lack of know-how about people held for a number of days, the lack to contact their households by telephone, the detainees’ lack of entry to neutral authorized counsel, and the prolonged interrogations that befell in a single day all spotlight the politicized and unlawful nature of those detentions.
“This is not only repression, it’s a deliberate assault on civil society,” Ghaemi stated. “The Iranian management continues to display its deep-rooted worry of its individuals.”
1) Masoud Mirzai, civil rights activist, Sanandaj, Kurdistan
2) Ebrahim Mirzaei, civil rights activist, Sanandaj, Kurdistan
3) Hozan Babakarami, civil rights activist, Sanandaj, Kurdistan
4) Yaser Nouri, Environmental Activist, Sanandaj, Kurdistan
5) Ziba Gelichhani, Kurdish civil rights activist, Bijar, Kurdistan
6) Elaheh Askari, Photographer, Tehran, Tehran Province
7) Narges Sardari, spouse of detained actor Mehdi Etemad Saeed, Tehran
8) Pouria Ahmadi, civil rights activist, Sanandaj, Kurdistan
9) Matin Yazdani, girls’s rights activist, Rasht, Gilan province
10) Forugh Saminia, girls’s rights activist, Rasht, Gilan province
11) Yasmin Hashdari, girls’s rights activist, Bandar Anzali, Gilan province
12) Gervais Javaheri, girls’s rights activist, Rasht, Gilan province
13) and 14) Zahra and Zohreh Dadras, girls’s rights activists (sisters), Rasht, Gilan province
15) Negin Rezai, girls’s rights activist, Hooman, Gilan province
16) Shiva Shashia, Women’s Rights Activist, Lahijan, Gilan Province
17) Vahed Kosirat, girls’s rights activist, Lahijan, Gilan province
18) Azadeh Chavossian, girls’s rights activist, Rasht, Gilan province
19) Sara Jahani, girls’s rights activist, Rasht, Gilan province
20) Hooman Taheri, political activist, Rasht, Gilan province
21) Mahsa Bashir Tavana, Mehran Bashir Tavana, Hooman, Gilan Province, talking for his murdered brother
22) Mojgan Iranloo, girls’s rights activist and documentary filmmaker, Tehran, Tehran Province
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