The Iranian Judiciary has sentenced a rights activist, Ghazaleh Zare’e, to three years of imprisonment.
Ghazaleh Zare’e is originally from Khorramabad, the capital of Lorestan Province in western Iran. She defends the rights of labor children and street children. She had been arrested in Khorramabad by security forces on July 30, 2023, and imprisoned in the detention center of the city’s Department of Intelligence. She spent 23 days in solitary confinement and 10 days in the women’s ward of the Prison of Khorramabad before being eventually released temporarily on a bail of 500 million Tomans.
The Revolutionary Court of Khorramabad sentenced Ms. Zare’e to one year in prison for disseminating “propaganda against the state” and to two years in jail for alleged “formation of a group to sabotage national security.”
Ghazaleh Zare’e, 47, is a journalist and rights activist. She set up two associations to help labor children and women who are victims of domestic violence.
