Dec 29, 2022
According to the reports registered in the Statistics and Documents Center of Hengaw Human Rights Organization, during 100 days of the uprising of the Iranian people, more than 500 Kurdish female activists in various cities and provinces such as Ilam, Kermanshah, Kurdistan, and West Azerbaijan have been abducted, and/or arrested by the regime forces. Hengaw has only been able to verify the identity of 202 of them so far.
Among the 202 women, 27 are university students, 6 are teachers, one is a lawyer, and 30 of them are under 18 years old and assessed as students, Hengaw's research shows.
As per this report, 7 of the detained women have been tried so far without observing the minimum standards of a fair trial, and their initial sentences ranged from 2 years of imprisonment for Sakineh Alirezaei to 15 years of imprisonment for Rozhin Yousafzadeh.
Time for Justice after nearly 3 Years
The judicial process of referring the downing of flight PS752, reportedly downed by two missiles fired by IRGC minutes after take-off from Tehran to Kyiv, to the International Court of Justice in The Hague started today.
176 civilians were killed in the downing of the Ukrainian Airline flight PS752 in 2020.
The Islamic Republic, the World’s Most Famous Hostage Taker
According to an Iranian newspaper, the heads of the hotel associations of Yazd and Kerman provinces, two of the most popular tourist destinations in Iran, are facing a sharp decrease in foreign and domestic tourism and the cancellation of a significant part of the reservations in recent months.
Since the protests started in Iran 3 months ago, some countries have advised their nationals to leave Iran and refrain from traveling to this country. The arrest of foreigners and dual nationals with vague charges by the Islamic regime is one of the reasons for this advice.
After the arrest of 7 people with links to Britain, the spokesperson of the British Prime Minister said: “We have always said that we will never accept our nationals to be used for diplomatic leverage and we ask the Iranian government to stop unjustly arresting British nationals and other foreign nationals”.
Mohammad Ghobadlou’s Life in Danger
Concerns about the possibility of execution of Mohammad Ghabadlou's death sentence have increased after his sentence was approved by the Supreme Court of the Islamic regime in the past few days. His political sponsors expressed their deep concern in a joint video message and demanded his immediate release.
9 other individuals have been sentenced to death, among them the 18-year-old Baluch youth Shoaib Mirbaluchzahi.
The IRGC forces attacked the people who attended the commemoration of the 40th day after the death of Milad Maroufi, one of the victims of the recent protests in the city of Bukan, West Azerbaijan province.