Nasim was the mother of two children and mechanical engineer.
Because security forces refused to release the bodies of those killed, her husband was forced to carry her body in his own arms for more than an hour.
According to recently surfaced reports, a 22-year-old woman named Afsaneh Zandabadi was executed on May 17, 2026, in the Central Prison of Tabriz. To date, state-run media in...
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Marjane Satrapi, the prominent Iranian-French author and filmmaker, passed away in Paris at the age of 56. She was the creator of the renowned masterpiece Persepolis. The French...
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Prison Memoirs of Azam Haj Heydari from the book The Price of Being Human — Part Nine In this ninth installment of the prison memoirs of Azam Haj...
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Setayesh Shafiei was killed on the evening of January 8, 2026, during nationwide protests in Tehran, after being struck by live ammunition fired by regime security forces. That...
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As the clerical regime in Iran intensifies its repression of dissent following nationwide protests, authorities have expanded their campaign against women, teachers, and artists. From arbitrary arrests and...
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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...
Marjane Satrapi, the prominent Iranian-French author and filmmaker, passed away in Paris at the age of 56. She was the...
The Iranian Resistance has lost one of its loyal friends and valued supporters. Carol Fontaine, a courageous human rights advocate...
The internet blackout in Iran—which is now entering a phase of drip-fed restoration after nearly three months of absolute blockage—has...
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.
