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IRANIAN authorities have escalated their crackdown on women’s rights activists, journalists, singers and other campaigners, Amnesty International said on Monday.
The rights group warned that authorities are using arbitrary detention, unjust prosecution, flogging and even the death penalty in a bid to quash Iran’s women’s rights movement, with at least five activists held since International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8.
These arrests come amid an intensified crackdown including interrogating activists and journalists, arresting women singers for performing without the mandatory hijab and shutting down their social media accounts.
With attacks on industry, healthcare and education intensifying, JAMSHID AHMADI warns of a deliberate drive to cripple Iran and calls for urgent global action
MAISSON HASSAN highlights how amid bombed-out cities and collapsing hospitals, women-led initiatives are keeping communities alive
The civilian toll climbs past 1,000 as women, children and families are struck in their homes, schools and public spaces – a stark illustration of the human cost of war. AZAR SEPEHR emphasises that the future of Iran is solely determinable by the people of that country and them alone
The Islamic Republic is attempting to deflect from its own failures with a scapegoating campaign against vulnerable and impoverished migrants, writes JAMSHID AHMADI