The regime demanded 500 million tomans from the Mirzaei family to release her body and forced them to state that her death had been the result of an accident.
Samaneh was 30 years old.
The Iranian regime has sentenced two imprisoned sisters, Kimia Davoudi and Tara Davoudi, to a combined 16 years in prison following their arrest during the nationwide protests of...
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Prison Memoirs of Azam Haj Heydari from the book The Price of Being Human — Part Eight In this installment of the prison memoirs of Azam Haj Heydari,...
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On Saturday, May 23, 2026, judicial authorities in Iran’s Semnan province announced a combined sentence of 53 years in prison for two political prisoners, Leila Ramezani and Fatemeh...
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In the 122nd week of the protest campaign “No to Executions Tuesdays,” political prisoners in 56 prisons across Iran launched another hunger strike on Tuesday, May 26, 2026,...
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The Iranian regime has punitively barred five female political prisoners held in Evin Prison from making phone calls. Since yesterday, Golrokh Iraee, Zahra Safaei, Marzieh Farsi, Shiva Esmaili,...
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Introduction Life for the Iranian people under the religious dictatorship is fraught with hardship and peril from every perspective. Whether...
Structural Inequality and State-Sanctioned Oppression of Women Gender-Based Discrimination Under Iranian Law” is the title of the NCRI Women’s Committee’s...
On the eve of International Women’s Day 2026, the NCRI Women’s Committee presents its Annual Report 2026, offering a recap...
In the contemporary history of Iran, there are names that live not merely as memories, but as paths. The name...
On May 10, 2026, the Daily Mail published an interview with Iranian student Shabnam Madadzadeh, a former political prisoner, member...
On the evening of Tuesday, May 5, 2026, the Arghavan commercialcomplex in Shahriar County, west of Tehran, became a death...
We work extensively with Iranian women outside the country and maintain a permanent contact with women inside Iran. The Women’s Committee is actively involved with many women’s rights organizations and NGO’s and the Iranian diaspora.
The committee is a major source of much of the information received from inside Iran with regards to women. Attending UN Human Rights Council meetings and other international or regional conferences on women’s issues and engaging in a relentless battle against the Iranian regime’s misogyny are part of the activities of members and associates of the committee.
