September 27, 2018

Fourth Women’s Rights Activist Arrested in Iran in Less Than a Month

Women’s rights advocate Maryam Azad was arrested by security agents at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport on September 25, 2018, after boarding a plane scheduled to fly to Istanbul, a source close to the ...

September 11, 2018

Three Detained Women’s Rights Activists Should be Immediately Released

No Information on Charges or Where Hoda Amid, Najmeh Vahedi or Rezvaneh Mohammadi are Being Held, Families Denied Contact September 11, 2018—The three women’s rights activists arrested by Iran’s security forces since September 1—the lawyer Hoda Amid, the sociologist Najmeh ...

September 5, 2018

Women Activists Arrested for Trying to Raise Awareness of Women’s Rights in Marriage and Divorce

Women’s rights activists Hoda Amid and Najmeh Vahedi were arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organization in Tehran on September 1, 2018 and taken to an unknown location, the Center ...