On April 9, 2024, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, virtually addressed a conference at the European Parliament entitled, “Championing Change: Supporting the Journey of Iranian Women.” Mrs. Rajavi began her speech by the messages of the combatant Iranian women from inside the country. Following are excerpts of her speech: First, allow me to read the message of resistant female prisoners and protesters in Iran. Their message is, “We, the women imprisoned in Evin, declare with firm belief and without any fear: Khamenei, we will overthrow you ..read more

A 19-year-old woman named Marjan Hajizadeh was executed on Thursday, April 11, 2024, in the Central Prison of Zanjan, Iran. Marjan Hajizadeh and her husband, Esmail Hassaniani, 29, had been sentenced to death on drug related charges. They were arrested and imprisoned three years ago. Marjan Hajizadeh was only 16 years and 4 months old at the time of arrest and detention. Marjan and Esmail were arrested on a motorway in Zanjan. Marjan didn’t know her husband was carrying drugs, and she was innocent. The execution of this young couple has not yet been announced by the official authorities at the ..read more

Atena Farghadani, the famous cartoonist and a former political prisoner, was violently arrested by security forces on Saturday, April 13, 2024, and transferred to the notorious Qarchak Prison for women. In protest to her arbitrary arrest, she refused to accept bail bond. For this reason, security forces took her to Qarchak Prison in Varamin. Her lawyer, Mohammad Moqimi, reported that Atena Farghadani had been badly brutalized at the time of arrest so much that the scars were evident on her face. However, there is no information available on the reason for her apprehension and the charges level ..read more

Iranian nurses held protests to demand their unfulfilled rights. Nurses of Golestan and Baghai hospitals in Ahvaz, capital of southwestern Khuzestan Province, held protest rallies on Saturday, April 13, 2024, protesting forced overtime work, unpaid wages, and changes to tariff laws. Golestan Hospital, Ahvaz The healthcare workers in Bagh-e Malek, Khuzestan Province, also held a rally outside the Governor’s Office on Saturday, April 13, 2024, protesting lack of accurate tariff laws, failure to pay bonuses, and forced overtime work. Healthcare workers, Bagh-e Malek Iranian nurses also held prote ..read more

The disciplinary appeal committee of Tehran University sentenced Zahra Jafari to a two-and-a-half-year ban on continuing her education. Zahra Jafari, a master’s student studying social welfare planning at Tehran University and the editor of the student magazine “Zhina,” was previously arrested during the 2022 nationwide protests in Tehran. The report carried by the state-run Sharq daily said the Disciplinary Appeals Committee of Tehran University accused the master’s student of making threats, provocation, throwing insults, obscenity, defamation, slander, and publishing falsehoods insulting Is ..read more

Women, Resistance, Freedom Call by the NCRI Women’s Committee to the women and men of Iran to stand up against the new round of repression of women in the misogynistic regime of the mullahs at the behest of Ali Khamenei Ali Khamenei increasingly relies on repression and suppression due to the setbacks his regime has faced from all sides. On Wednesday, April 10, during his Eid al-Fitr sermon, he cautioned the regime’s apparatuses, agents, and functionaries against “falling short” in countering “religious norm-breaking” and explicitly commanded: “Officials, the people, and those who promote good ..read more

Call by the NCRI Women’s Committee to the women and men of Iran to stand up against the new round of repression of women in the misogynistic regime of the mullahs at the behest of Ali Khamenei Ali Khamenei increasingly relies on repression and suppression due to the setbacks his regime has faced from all sides. On Wednesday, April 10, during his Eid al-Fitr sermon, he cautioned the regime’s apparatuses, agents, and functionaries against “falling short” in countering “religious norm-breaking” and explicitly commanded: “Officials, the people, and those who promote good and forbid evil must all c ..read more

Political Prisoner Sharifeh Mohammadi Pressured to Wear a Veil during Cabin Visits Political prisoner Sharifeh Mohammadi has been in temporary detention for nearly five months in Lakan Prison of Rasht, where she has faced various restrictions during this period. Mr. Sirous Fat’hi, her husband, said, “For nearly five months, workers of Lakan Prison have been forcing Sharifeh Mohammadi to wear a veil for her cabin visits. She has protested against this action by Lakan Prison workers.” Political prisoner Sharifeh Mohammadi has seen her 12-year-old child only once since her arrest. She was also de ..read more

Mohseni Ejei, Iran’s Judiciary Chief hints at boosting mandatory hijab street harassment   A week after Ali Khamenei’s re-emphasis on the enforcement of the compulsory hijab, the regime’s Chief Justice said that the clerical regime was not in a good situation in terms of “hijab and chastity”; a statement that according to some, could mean stricter hijab harassment by the regime’s morality police and hijab enforcers.   In a meeting with the heads of some of the state-run media, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei said, “I still believe that by following the existing laws, the state of chastit ..read more

Student activist Fahime Soltani was arrested for the second time after being summoned by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Intelligence Department in the central city of Isfahan. She was transferred to an unknown location. Soltani was also arrested during the nationwide protests and sentenced to temporary suspension from education. According to sources close to Fahime Soltani’s family, she was summoned on April 3 by Isfahan University for an examination of her case but did not go because she was contacted after hours.  She was then summoned to the IRGC’s Intelligence Department where she w ..read more