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HRW – Over six months since the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement erupted in Iran, the government’s crackdown on women’s fundamental rights in Iran continues. In the last ten days alone, authorities have arrested three activists and journalists and summoned two more to court.
On April 10, authorities arrested journalist and Kurdish women’s rights activist Jina Modares Gorji in Sanandaj. This is the second time in recent months that she has been arrested. Security forces violently arrested Modares Gorj on September 21, 2022. She was released on bail on October 30. In March 2023, she posted on her Instagram account that she was accused of “acting against national security” by forming an “illegal group” and being a member of it.
On Saturday, April 8, agents from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Intelligence Organization arrested Zainab Zaman, a feminist activist, after she appeared in their office in Tehran for an interrogation. Security forces also searched her house. She was released on bail on April 15 from Evin prison.
Fariba Zandkarimi was arrested on Wednesday, April 5, 2023, after being summoned to the Intelligence Department of Sanandaj. After her arrest, security forces searched her house and confiscated some of her personal belongings, and took some with them.
Labor activist Anisha Asadollahi and journalist Maryam Vahidian were summoned to Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolution Court for their trials on April 16 and 18.
