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KURDISH journalist and political prisoner Mojgan Kavousi was denied release from Iran’s notorious Evin jail on medical grounds today, despite having health conditions that put her at particular risk from coronavirus.
Initially arrested during anti-government protests in 2019, Ms Kavousi was charged with being a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran and “disturbing public order,” along with making propaganda against the Iranian regime.
She has become a prominent critic of the treatment of women in Iranian prisons.
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) welcomes demonstrations across Iran, which have put pressure upon the theocratic dictatorship, but warns against intervention by the United States to force Iran in a particular direction
The Islamic Republic is attempting to deflect from its own failures with a scapegoating campaign against vulnerable and impoverished migrants, writes JAMSHID AHMADI
In the second of two articles, STEVE BISHOP looks at how the 1979 revolution’s aims are obfuscated to create a picture where the monarchists are the opposition to the theocracy, not the burgeoning workers’ and women’s movement on the streets of Iran
