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October 2, 2024

Narges Mohammadi

Women behind bars, injustice and double discrimination/ Elaheh Amani

Gender inequality in criminal justice systems is an international problem that violates women’s human rights in all countries. Female prisoners are mostly from vulnerable and economically and socially disadvantaged backgrounds, and they experience double deprivation in prison, as the structure and culture of prisons have historically been designed for male prisoners. Despite the efforts of […]...

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Created By: Elahe Amani
June 21, 2024

“An individual cell is a torture for every living being/ A conversation between Reza Akhvani and Narges Mohammadi.”

Narges Mohammadi is a human rights activist, former political prisoner, and spokesperson for the Association of Human Rights Defenders. She has repeatedly experienced detention by security institutions and long-term solitary confinement. Recently, along with several other civil activists and former political prisoners, she filed a complaint at the judiciary office regarding the detention of suspects […]...

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Created By: Admin
May 22, 2021

Sixteen years later – a poem by Reza Ekvanian

Autumn. Yellow jacket hunter. In the presence of women, my land flourishes. The most sorrowful yellow is the color of autumn. Nasrin says: If still, the trees in the neighbor’s yard were green. These days were becoming forty years old. Waiting for spring. They were giving their body to the water. They were sitting in […]...

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Created By: Admin
November 26, 2016

Why do they give heavy sentences to some prisoners? / Reza Alijani

This is a caption “This is a caption” Reza Alijani 1- During the Green Movement, statements from a commander of the Revolutionary Guards were published, stating that one of his comrades had seen a fellow soldier among the protesters (Green Movement) on the front lines. He was deeply upset and concerned about this, but had […]...

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Created By: Reza Alizadeh
November 26, 2016

Standing two Mohammads and one Narges/ Ali Kalaii

Ali Kalai “Being human is a difficult duty. Perhaps these words may initially seem like a mere string of words, following each other and leaving no trace of the contemporary Iranian morning poetry. With a meaning that only evokes a human understanding in the mind. A meaning that is relevant to philosophical understanding and theoretical […]...

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Created By: Ali Kalaei
May 26, 2015

Narges Mohammadi: Drug traffickers are victims of poverty / Ali Kalaii

Prior to 1390 (2011), possession, buying, and selling of certain drugs such as hashish and industrial drugs did not carry the death penalty. However, the Expediency Discernment Council declared in a resolution that anyone carrying, buying, selling, or possessing more than 30 grams of these types of drugs would face the death penalty. This resolution […]...

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Created By: Ali Kalaei
April 25, 2015