IRAN: You don’t hear about it in the news, but they are still happening:
Attacks on women who are defying hijab
Imprisonment, torture and execution
of rights activists and political prisoners
The Islamic regime in Iran has been arresting, imprisoning, torturing and pressuring women to wear hijab. Despite all the arrests, tortures, sexual abuses and executions of demonstrators by the Islamic regime and their Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), women across Iran have continuously been bravely defying the Islamic regime. They do this by not wearing the hijab.
Armita Geravan, age 17, was violently assaulted by the hijab police in Iran for not wearing a hijab and she has remained in a coma since the 1st of October 2023. Her family have been threatened and forced by the IRGC, and her mother was also briefly detained, to force them not to publicly speak about their daughter’s assault. One of the trade unions for teachers in Iran issued a statement explaining that the regime’s Ministry of Education’s security director had visited Armita’s school. They have threatened her teachers that sharing any news or photos of Armita Geravand on social media by her teachers would result in heavy fines, immediate termination of their contracts and even imprisonment. Armita’s health is deteriorating every day.
Lend your voice to Armita by saying her name using the hashtag #ArmitaGeravand on your social media.
There are thousands of political prisoners in prison in Iran including workers, students, teachers and women rights activists. They have been subjected to physical, psychological, sexual and pharmacological tortures. The Islamic regime and their IRGC have been arresting rights activists as well as the families of those who were killed in the recent protests. Families are banned from inviting people to get together and mourn the loss of their loved ones and to commemorate their memories on the anniversary of their death. Hundreds of political prisoners are in danger of being executed or being killed under torture by the IRGC. Thousands of the detainees of the recent protests, which were following Mahsa Amini’s death in custody on 16 September 2022, are still in prison and many are in danger of being executed. Please see the link for our weekly update of this list:
We would like to remind you that even before the death of Mahsa Amini, there have been thousands of political prisoners who have been held in prison for many years in Iran. These political prisoners are in grave danger as their names have not been publicised and as a result, there is less attention paid to the danger they are facing in prison. The Islamic regime uses this silence and lack of publicity to execute them silently. Many are in danger of being executed and or dying under torture.
Lend your voice to reinforce international solidarity with political prisoners in Iran, who are being tortured and executed, just because they stood up to the brutality of the Islamic regime in Iran. Use the hashtag #FreeIranPoliticalPrisoners and urge your government to use its power to pressure the Islamic regime in Iran to release all political prisoners and overturn all the execution sentences.
It will take you only a minute of your time to help save their lives.
Campaign to Free Political Prisoners in Iran (CFPPI)
For more information or media enquiry please contact:
Shiva Mahbobi, Spokeswoman
Campaign to Free Political Prisoners in Iran (CFPPI)
www.cfppi.org shiva.mahbobi@gmail.com Tel: +447572356661
